Situated Thresholds is a data-visualisation installation that asks how digital infrastructure already in place — before it was ever needed — came to shape who could reach healthcare once care moved online.
Focusing on London, the work overlays full-fibre broadband availability in 2018, online GP registration in 2019, the peak of video consultations in 2022–23, and GP registration again in 2024. Read together, they suggest the pandemic did not create the gap in digital healthcare access — it made an existing one visible.
The main map — “Where” — visualises remote consultation rates from 2022–23 as a topographic landscape, layered over London's full-fibre coverage in 2018. Peaks and valleys let the relationship between early infrastructure and later healthcare use be read at a glance, borough by borough.
The vertical map — “Here” — inserts a third moment, 2019 online GP registration before the pandemic, between those two layers, cutting through them as a vertical anatomical cross-section. Seen this way, the gap appears to pre-date the pandemic: the infrastructure had already begun to divide access before video consultations ever made that divide visible.
The still map — “Still” — asks whether the threshold holds over time. Comparing online GP registration rates in 2019 and 2024, it shows that regional rankings barely shifted across five years: those ahead stayed ahead. Early infrastructure, then, did more than offer temporary convenience; it helped an uneven structure persist. Inequality is often read spatially, but this screen argues its temporal dimension matters just as much.