Landmarks of Boston;

Visualising Boston city data for an interactive exhibit at the Museum of Science

In 2024, I was part of a group of students from Harvard and Brown University, selected to join Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center to join a in creating interactive exhibits based on Boston city data.

My team focused on architectural landmarks—not just as historical artifacts, but as reflections of identity. We sought to patterns between Boston as it was represented by its landmarks, and as its residents saw it.

Our team all contributed to developing the concept, I worked on the digital design of the interface for the final exhibit.

Our concept

For our exhibit at the Museum of Science, we created an interactive map displaying all officially recognized architectural landmarks in Boston. Museum visitors could add their own ‘social landmarks’—places personally meaningful to them—creating a parallel layer of public memory.

These user-submitted landmarks appeared as custom icons, contrasting the standard pins used for architectural sites. The result was a living visualization that revealed gaps, overlaps, and surprising alignments between the city’s formal identity and its emotional landscape.

The design

Users could toggle between a view of architectural landmarks and social

The exhibit

The exhibit was hosted for two days in the Museum of Science, Boston. We saw almost 200 social landmarks submitted by visitors.