Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013

June 20, 2013
11:00 am

Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013 is a one-day symposium featuring exhibition tours, movie screenings and presentations by 20 distinguished speakers, on topics ranging from wind maps to the visualization of biological and urban data.

The event is taking place on June 20, from 11:00 am-9:00 pm, at Northeastern University in Boston. It is open to public and free. RSVP recommended.

Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013 was developed out of SwissInfographics’ exhibition project Swiss Style Reboot. This origin is embodied by the symposium’s logo: the SwissInfographics cross turned into a network diagram.

Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013
The SwissInfographics cross turned into a network diagram

MORNING EVENTS

Gallery 360, Ell Hall/Curry Student Center
11:00 am – Gallery Talk: Swiss Style Reboot

West Village F, Room 20
12:00 pm – Screening: Teaching to See

A film by Andrei Severny, featuring renowned graphic design educator, Inge Druckrey, introduced by Franz Werner, RISD

AFTERNOON SESSION

West Village F, Room 20
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Introductions:

Xavier Costa – Dean, College of Arts, Media and Design
Nathan Felde – Chair, Art + Design, Northeastern University

Presentations:

Yanni Loukissas – Senior Researcher, metaLAB and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Mark Davis – Producer and Director, NOVA, Mars Rover
Glorianna Davenport – Senior Researcher, MIT Media Lab; Tidmarsh Farms, Living Observatory
Casper Harteveld – Northeastern University; Game design for environmental education
Bang Wong – Creative Director, Broad Institute, Open Data project; Visualization of biological data
Eli Kintisch – Knight Project Fellow, MIT and RISD, “Close to Home: How new data visualization methods bring climate reality to our doorstep”
Brian Wee and Brian Rosborough – NEONINC.org
Dietmar Offenhuber – MIT, Sensible Cities, New York City 311 Maps
Jason Pearson – The Economy Maps, Washington D.C.

Food service is available on campus at the Curry Student Center.

EVENING SESSION

West Village F, Room 20
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Part One – Principles of Information Design

Nicolas Bourquin and Thibaud Tissot – Onlab, onlab.ch
Isabel Meirelles – Professor of Information Design, Northeastern University
Joel Katz – Author of “Designing Information”
Claudia Mareis – University of the Arts Basel, Design Theory, Iconic Criticism

Part Two – Challenges for Data Visualization

Frenanda Viegas and Martin Watterberg – “Wind Maps” and Google “Big Picture”
Ben Fry – Co-author, with Casey Reas, of “Processing” and Founder of Fathom
David Lazer – “Digital Fragments: Social Network Media and the Boston Marathon Bombing”, Northeastern Center for Text, Maps and Networks
Andreas Amsler – Opendata Switzerland

RESPONDANTS

Chris Pullman – former Vice President of Design for WGBH
Michael McPherson – Principal, Corey McPherson and Nash
Chris Myers – Chair of Design, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Paul David Kahn – Experience Designer, MadPow, Boston
Kim Ducharme – Director of Design, CAST
Douglass Scott – Graphic design history professor, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern
John Kane – Graphic design and typography professor, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern
Tom Starr – Graphic and information design professor, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern
Ann McDonald – Experience design professor, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern
Mark Sivak – Experience design and engineering professor, College of Engineering, and College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
Jane Amidon – Associate Dean Graduate Studies and Research, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
Jeff Howe – Journalism professor, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern; former Neiman Fellow, Harvard University

Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013
Northeastern's flyer for the symposium on June 20

Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013 is presented by SwissInfographics, swissnex Boston, the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University and Northeastern Center for the Arts.

To see information design in action, check out the Swiss Style Reboot exhibition taking place at Gallery 360 from June 1 until July 17, 2013.