I found Eric Cadora and Laura Kurgan’s "Architecture and Justice" particularly compelling as a discussion of visual imagery and spatial representation due to the social justice issues that saturate their work and lend real world urgency to questions of aesthetics, design and visual communication. From lists of “hard data,” the team generates visual statements via graphic language that employs mappings in order to aid in the visualization of social ills. In the use of striking visual representation, the group responds to their own question: “what can we do with this data?” Here, one sees how raw data is implemented—designed—in the analysis of criminal justice concerns. Presenting multiple layers of information, "Architecture and Justice" uses information as a resource in order to examine and evaluate issues of public policy and inadequate social structures. By reconfiguring data in a visually compelling manner by means of mappings, the project not only emphasizes its own implications, but also successfully adds greater depth to the consideration of the given information. Thus, spatial imagery proves influential on a public and cultural scale, a reality that I find inspiring as a novice designer concerned with social justice issues.