DAPTEC – Data Physicalisation Technology

Welcome to DAPTEC. We are a team of researchers from Cardiff School of Technologies and Cardiff School of Art & Design working in collaboration with industrial partners Yard Associates Ltd and Cardiff City Council on a data physicalisation technology project.

DAPTEC stands for Data Physicalisation Technology. DAPTEC is about giving data a physical shape/ form and in doing so, making it more accessible, and inclusive. Our team is interested in finding new tangible and creative ways of generating value from existing yet often invisible data. We believe that many transformational societal outcomes can be derived from improving the availability of data and in doing so, make it more meaningful.

The project is funded by the Welsh Government Smart Expertise (European Regional Development Fund).

Our Story

Flatholm Project Journey

People that made DAPTEC happen

Thank you to everyone that worked on the DAPTEC Flat Holm project and to all the kids from Mount Stuart primary school, Cardiff that helped us test the exhibit.

Flatholm Project Journey

People interacting with the exhibit

We have reached the next phase of our project where people are starting to interact with the exhibit. Some really interesting feedback is filtering back to us.

Flatholm Project Journey

Interactive Map: How many LEDS?

We needed hundreds of LEDS to make our interactive map work… but it was well received once we got it working.