For many people outside the scientific community statistical information and graphs remain abstract and unintelligible. This creative practice-based research investigates how we might begin to interpret technical/digital information through the creation of material-based physical objects, with the intention of bringing better understanding to scientific data for a variety of audiences.
Using information gathered on the ability of older people to open ordinary domestic jar lids, a number of physical data-objects were created to represent this data in different ways. Some objects were created by hand and some were created using computer-based modelling and 3D printing technologies.