http://groundtruth.justin.work/

Ground Truth is a device that attaches to any Citi Bike. It uses GPS to look up corresponding hyperlocal rent burden data to change the pedal resistance. As a rider moves through areas where housing costs consume a greater share of residents’ incomes, the bike’s resistance increases. When they enter a more affordable area, the resistance eases.

The project translates an economic abstraction into a direct, physical experience. Rather than asking people to interpret inequality through a heat map, chart, or census statistic, it asks them to encounter the underlying data through their own effort and movement.

Ground Truth was developed with generous support from Idle Hands