A Transdisciplinary Approach to Data Visualization

Spring Insight

UC Santa Barbara

April 13, 2019

 

Real Body: Professor Laila Shereen Sakr

Data Body: @vj_um_amel

Department of Film and Media Studies

Academic Genealogy

Science

These two cultures have been long recognized as dominating our social, cultural, and educational systems.

Humanities

Design

  • Conception and realization of new things
     
  • Synthesis of form and content
     
  • Process for solving problems that uses both artistic and scientific practices
     
  • At its core, design is the language of modeling; and it is learnable, as it is possible to develop students' aptitudes in the language of the sciences (numeracy) and the language of the humanities (literacy).

An outcome of a research project at the Royal College of Art on "Design in General Education" was the statement of a belief in a missing "third area" of education (1979).

Cross, Nigel (1982). Designerly ways of knowing. Design Studies, 3(4) pp. 221–227.

Science

Humanities
Design

Sciences Arts & Humanities Design
Natural World Human Experience Artificial World
Controlled experiment, classification, analysis Analogy, metaphor, evaluation Pattern-formation, synthesis
Objectivity, rationality, neutrality, "truth"  Subjectivity, imagination, commitment, "justice" ​Practicality, ingenuity, empathy, "appropriateness"

Phenomenon of study

Primary method

Primary value

The collected experience of material culture, and the collected skill and understanding embodied in the arts of planning, inventing, making and doing.

What if...

Networks of youth across Egypt, Brazil, Venezuela and everywhere are designing culture with social media

 2016

 

THANK YOU

@vj_um_amel

 

 

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Data Visualization

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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Data Visualization

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