OpinionMap: What Should One Eat?

At the exhibition from October 20,2017 to August 5, 2018

There exist a variety of views about what one should eat. And people may advocate a certain diet for quite different reasons – financial, culinary, ethical, or health considerations, amongst others. In order to make sense of this variety of opinions we visualize them in the form of a map. Here, people who have the same view on what a good diet looks like, as well as similar reasons for their opinion, are part of the same »country«. For example, persons who advocate an omnivorous diet mainly for the pleasure of eating are »citizens« of » Omnivoria«; others, who prefer a vegan diet because they hold that animals have a right to life, are found in » Veganland«. The size of these countries represents the number of persons that actually have a corresponding point of view. The application »OpMAP« behind the visualization runs in a web browser and allows the user to locate themselves on the map by taking the short survey that was also used to gather the initial data to create the map. The animated map shows how landmasses are shifting as more and more data come in.