From Paola Antonelli's bio: "Paola’s goal is not only to explain and promote designers' strategic role in building the world, but also to make design the most loved, understood, and celebrated subject of the XXI century."
Fernanda B. Viégas is a research scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the social, collaborative, and artistic aspects of information visualization.
Her fascination with the power of visualization to spark conversation led to the creation of Many Eyes with colleague Martin Wattenberg at IBM. The site is an open experiment on collective sensemaking and the impact of data analysis on public debate.
Before joining IBM, Viégas’s research at the MIT Media Lab focused on the visualization of online communities. She is known for her pioneering work on depicting chat histories, email archives, and Wikipedia activity. Viégas's interest in the stories that people tell about these archives led to a series of visualizations of personal, emotionally-charged data.
Luke Johnson, MFA Candidate
Media Design Program, Art Center
I am not a “traditional” design student. I received my undergraduate degree in both pre-med and political science. And before attending the Media Design Program (MDP) at Art Center, I spent the past two years teaching art to inner city students in Washington DC.
What makes the MDP unique is that embraces students who are relatively new to design but have other training and life experience. This wide range of interests complements a curriculum that challenges its students to consistently work across a range of media platforms. As a result, thesis projects are as diverse as geodesic dome that reveals poetry with the passing daylight to a human-centered case study aimed to improve medication safety.
In the fall, the MDP will be undergoing a massive curriculum change to promote its role as a leader in human-centered research. Summer sessions will now be devoted exclusively to internships, individual study or design research.
In my first year, I have had the opportunity to work on three design research projects. These projects include The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and their work with teenagers with chronic illness, my work as an official selection for Mieke Gerritzen and Koerte van Meenswort's "Biggest Visual Power Show," and the completion of the MDP's signature Super Studio course, a three-term exploration into design research.
What binds all three projects together is a greater sense of collaboration. Before coming to graduate school, I realized that alone my craft had become stagnant. At its best, a graduate school education provides an immersive environment for learning between like-minded individuals, the contacts to move you forward, and the curiosity for a self-sustaining practice.
Watch the video of this presentation here: http://www.socialstudiesconference.org/node/265
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This list is a collection of resources about an array of interconnected topics hailing from many disciplines, including design (primarily media/information and interaction design), perception and cognition, and policy areas with societal and cultural implications.
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