Ottawa: The Third City was part of Ottawa Architecture Week 2015. The Third City sought to explore the ‘unknown’ city and study the relationship between Ottawa as a Capital, Ottawa as a City and the spaces in between. Using data mappings and relational urban studies, the collection of works will reimagine and offer new visual representations of the city. The visitor will experience the story of Ottawa as a dynamic series through history to current times, exploring the role of how its people define boundaries within the city. The exhibition is meant to make open data accessible to members of the public who do not have the means to visualize information that is available to them.
The map base was first created in GIS by converging shapefiles and various datasets. The work was then moved to Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to visualize the information, making the work interactive, simple and approachable.
