^[4] Objects left behind: visualizing what we lose at airports

Dublin Airport↗, the 28th in Europe for the annual number of passengers in transit, publicly shares what's kept in the Lost and Found deposit with daily updates. If they're not claimed, the objects are disposed of and the data deleted after 2-3 months.

In this visualization, after various trials, I decided to privilege readability over the emotional impact of hundreds of intertwining lines, aiming at a moment of "Oh, people lose more watches than sunglasses!? But well, mainly at Security Screening; makes sense". Furthermore, these flows of things abandoned somewhere dragged me towards the world of public places maps, a suggestion that I tried to incorporate.

The project is part of a broader exploration of the representation of missing data - like To all the films we have lost.

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