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Carel, can you define formal knowledge and methodical research? My department recently hosted Mike Migurski of Stamen design and Sarah Williams of Columbia for a panel discussion. We asked them about the ethics of data visualization and the responsibility of designers to interrogate data sets. I'll post the video after it is edited. We host Jer Thorpe, artist in residence of the NYT later this semester. If you have any specific questions for him, pass them along and I will see if we can work them in. --------------------------- Michael Yap MFA Candidate Interaction Design School of Visual Arts (SVA) web fancifuldevices.com twitter michaelryap --------------------------- On Feb 5, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Carel Kuitenbrouwer wrote: > Dear List members, > > I have been following this list passively since I was not involved in actual research, let alone PhD-projects, but I have recently been appointed senior lecturer-researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. September next we will start a big research project on the interdisciplinary design processes of infographics and data visualisation. The goal of this two-year project is to generate knowledge, networks and protocols for education and business. We will work closely with independent designers, agencies and commissioners. > > As a start-up for this project we are now doing desk research and interviews into the use of existing knowledge and research by makers of infographics and data visualisations and the research these makers might perform themselves to base their design decisions on. > > This preliminary research is based on the hypothesis that the practice of information design, more specifically the design of infographics, is founded on scant formal knowledge or methodical research. > > I would be most grateful for any thoughts or resources that might falsify this hypothesis. > > > > Yours truly, > > Carel F.H.M. Kuitenbrouwer > > Senior lecturer & researcher, > > Faculty of Communication & Journalism, > > University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands > > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > www.hu.nl<http://www.hu.nl>