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