date
2007format
webgenre
data visualitzationproject description
Casastristes.org explores housing problems in Spain. Its objective is to serve as an information and resources exchange platform in line with the Web 2.0 philosophy, through the creation of a reliable public database of empty houses in Spain.
By providing data visualizations and a list of references on the website, the project also aims to offer resources likely to help clarify ambiguous concepts and strengthen the network of citizens, associations, collectives, etc. concerned about housing and on the lookout for a a way to communicate with each other, become visible, and make proposals.
Casastristes.org questions concepts such as "the advantages of buying a home instead of renting", and highlights the abundance of empty houses in contrast to the generally accepted theory of "a lack of buildable land". The purpose is to look for solutions given the extremely high percentage of empty homes in Spain, evaluate the reasons so many people do not leave their parents' home until age 35, and propose alternative housing policies.
artist bio
The project is an original idea of Derivart, the finance art collective that Mar Canet is part of it with Jesus Rodriguez and Daniel Beunza, and then it is a project produced by three media artists Mar Canet, Gerald Kogler, Jordi Puig. The project starts at workshop Visualizar focused in data visualitzations with Ben Fry and Adrian Holovaty as a tutors in November 2007 at Medialab-Prado(Madrid).
