The Amazonia Future Lab https://amazoniafuturelab.fh-potsdam.de will exhibit their interactive video installation on material practices from the indigenous communities of the Upper Xingu at re:publica 24 in Berlin next week!
Happy and honored to give a virtual keynote at the #CrossingFonds Symposium next week in Vancouver/online!
I will speak about conceptual analogues as a versatile vehicle to aid transdisciplinary collaboration in the intersecting contexts of #archives, #visualization and #design.
Over the past two summers I had the privilege to co-teach experimental design courses, which not only yielded great projects, but also spawned stimulating discussions and discoveries with our students.
To document these kinds of journeys, Philipp @proff and i prepared #SyllabusSite, a template for rendering #Markdown files as scrollable one-pagers that gather readings, inspirations and results in a unique format:
In summer of 2022, Lamin Manneh and i held an experimental seminar that we called »Decolonizing Data Visualization – Visualizing Postcolonies«. In this course, we were particularly interested in the bidirectional engagement between #visualization and #decolonization: we wanted to ask critical questions about #DataVis, but also use the creative and communicative capacity of visualization to convey postcolonial issues:
Last year, Myriel Milicevic and i offered a nomadic course »Organigrams for/from the future« and visited ten organizations who shared insights about cooperative work practices. While #organigrams tend to represent traditional organizations, we explored how they could also stimulate our imagination. How would an economy built on solidarity, sustainability and survival look like?
I notice now that the little double arrow "boost" symbol, when activated, not only changes color (a change invisible to the colorblind) but also gains a small square in the middle (obvious to all, including the colorblind). A kudos to the design team!
powers of ten for interface design: zooming out from a simple button to our planet, this animation introduces the central concerns of #InterfaceDesign – as taught at #FHPotsdam – and sneaks in a few easter eggs and historical references along the way.
🧳 We are getting ready for @InfoPlusConf in a few days in Edinburgh!
@fidel Thomet and Nadia Zeissig will exhibit Xingú Entangled from the #AmazoniaFutureLab project and @jona Pomerance will talk about the interactive and narrated flowchart about #BetterCatastrophe.
Our open-source design system is a tool used in all of our web projects which allows us to put together a research-driven, deployment-ready site in hours rather than days or weeks.
How can we design visualizations of climate protection & how do they impact readers?
@framoriniii will present »From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism« on 27 Oct at #ieeevis in the Journalism & the Public panel.
🔥 🌍 The climate crisis is not a technical problem to be fixed by engineers, but a predicament we all have to face. This interactive flowchart by Andrew Boyd and Jona Pomerance is an invitation to hear the impossible news and navigate the implications:
How can we narrate and navigate the climate crisis?
This experimental interface is an interactive and narrated version of the flowchart that climate activist and author Andrew Boyd included in his latest book »I Want a Better Catastrophe«
Follow his personal path and explore our collective predicament:
So, hands up who else does this: adding custom debuggers to your interfaces for testing them out?
It’s a little habit I picked up decades ago during the Flash days and it’s as useful now. (Found and fixed at least two bugs after implementing this simple one today.)
Tomorrow, Andrew Boyd visits us to present his new book »I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor« and to demo together with Jona Pomerance an early version of an interactive flowchart to help us navigate our climate predicament. Join us!