🦜🦜🦜
The project consists of an interactive installation that tells the centrality of the human role in monk parakeets and ring-necked parakeets’ presence in Italian cities, caused by their importation into the country as pets.
It presents an analysis of the online trading market for these animals through the selection of listings extracted from Facebook, Telegram, Subito, and 12 other platforms between November 1st and 5th, 2024.
From a total of 885 listings, 114 contain photographs where, other than parakeets on sale, human figures are visible through the element of hand.
These listings are grouped into 7 collections based on how the hand interacts with the parakeet; they've also been analyzed by comparing the pictures with their descriptions to find out what makes these interactions meaningful. Thus the hand becomes the symbol of the relationship between people and parakeets, telling in an emblematic way how these animals are perceived and treated. In the experience, the user will be able to explore the story associated with each pose and come into contact with the data directly through their hand movements.
The experience consists of a web application built using three.js, an easy-to-use, lightweight Javascript framework built for creating 3D content on a webpage. Starting from the seven poses, the Mediapipe Hand Landmark detection algorithm, a machine-learning solution developed by Google for hand recognition, was used to identify a set of points for each hand’s pose.
🦜🦜🦜
Martina Esposito
Giulia Grassi
Ming Hu
Nausicaa Naibo
Fabio Pennone
Anita Ruggiu
Final Synthesis Design Studio, Master in Communication Design, Politecnico di Milano