Dealing with carbon: physicalisation of academic flying to support collective meaning-making for a low-carbon academia

Today there is a wealth of data available detailing the climate impact of our actions, including the (Formula presented.) emissions from academic flying. Despite this, such data is hard to engage with in the abstract, leading to little practical action. In this paper, we investigate how to support processes of collectively working through and making sense of environmental data about academic flying through data physicalisation. Drawing on the results from a series of workshops with stakeholders at our own university, in which we have designed and deployed a data physicalisation of flight data, we describe this process and discuss lessons learned with a focus on material, engagement with data and ethics.