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Per Aspera Ad Astra Diploma project by Soraya Camina/ @itsassoo Per Aspera Ad Astra is a web-documentary that tells the story of five women astronomers who were in charge of discovering, calculating, classifying and mapping the cosmos between 1879 and 1979. This project aims to rehabilitate the crucial contribution made by women in STEM. In the early days, before the word “computer” was used to describe a machine, it was in actual fact used to describe a person, namely the women who made calculations and observations by hand. The “Harvard Computers” significantly contributed to astronomy and science by discovering many galaxies and establishing the stellar classification system that is still in use today. Nowadays, however, we speak very little about these five women; their work remains unknown, and their discoveries have often been attributed to the men who employed them. Tutors: Alain Bellet/ @notdefineda , Gaël Hugo/ @onemorestudio , Laura Nieder/ @laura__nieder & Pauline Saglio/ @pow.sgl Assistants: Pierry Jaquillard/ @pierry_prairie , Paul Lëon/ @paul_leon_noel , Kylan Luginbühl/ @kylan.luginbuhl & Sébastien Matos/ @mabestos #webdocu #documentary #website #astronomy #cosmos #stem #harvard #computers #science #pioneers

Soraya Maeva Camina @itsassoo is one of the finalists in the #mediaandinteractiondesign category of the Swiss Design Awards 2023!⁠ Per Aspera Ad Astra (Latin for “through hardships to the stars”) is a dynamic web-documentary platform telling the story of five women astronomers who were in charge of discovering, calculating, classifying and mapping the cosmos between 1879 and 1979. The project aims to rehabilitate the crucial contribution made by women in STEM. The “Harvard Computers” significantly contributed to astronomy by discovering many galaxies and establishing the stellar classification system that is still in use today. However, we only speak very little about these women; nowadays their work remains largely unknown, and their discoveries are often (wrongly) attributed to the men who employed them. The interface draws its concept and graphic inspiration directly from the five women’s work method. The further we delve into their story, the more of the map gets discovered and annotated. This highlights the user’s own journey of discovery, made entirely by themselves or partially through the dynamic auto-player. 📆 SAVE THE DATE 📅 Swiss Design Awards 2023 June 13–18, 2023 Hall 1.1, Messe Basel Free Admission ℹ️ MORE INFORMATION ℹ️ swissdesignawards.ch @swissdesignawards Images courtesy of the designer.⁠ #SwissDesignAwards2023 #SDA2023 #SDA23

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Keukenhof - Still one of my favorite projects so far 💙 Designed within @joshschaub.ch 's moving poster course

Dynamic identity for CASP - Contemporary Architecture Space (fictive). Based on the modular principle of architecture.

HH:MM:SS on e-ink display

Silk-scarf pattern generator based on super-low resolution images. The user's webcam is taken as input, which creates unique patterns and color combination for each user.

Logbook is the re-imagination of what an electronic scuba-diving logbook could look like both in desktop and mobile version. --- Self-tracking / 2019

Triptych of looping 3D sequences based on artist Katarzyna Kobro’s Spatial Compositions (1928).

ˋWhere are the girls ?´ - questions the gender balance in festival lineups. Focused on one music festival through the years, only the names of the acts containing at least one female-figure are kept on the posters. All others are removed in order to give a visual representation of how far the festival scene still has to go to get closer to a 50:50 gender-balanced lineup.