How do EJCAM students spend their day?
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What does a typical student day actually look like? That was the question at the heart of this urban dataviz project, which set out to map how EJCAM students distribute their time across a typical day. Rather than relying on a conventional survey, the team designed a playful, hands-on installation to collect the data directly from their peers. Using large paper posters, they drew clock faces representing a full 24-hour day split into two 12-hour cycles. Participants were invited to either stick post-it notes onto the clocks or colour in the zones corresponding to the time they spent on each activity. Five categories structured the exercise: time in class (in person or remote), sleep, leisure covering sport, social life and relaxation, work done at home, and a student job if applicable.
The installation gathered responses from 46 students aged between 20 and 27, among them 32 women and 14 men, drawn primarily from EJCAM's communications programmes. The mix of profiles was deliberate: the team specifically sought to include students both with and without a student job, anticipating that this variable would be a meaningful driver of difference in how time was spent. When the visual supports were collected and the data extracted, the results were striking. Student jobs accounted for the largest share of daily time at 32.1%, overtaking even sleep, which came in at 25.7%. Time in class represented 21.1% of the day, leisure 13.8%, and homework 7.3%. |
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