Tag: science
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Interacting with Complexity
Information designers’ bread and butter is making sense of complexity. This is why the core courses in the first year of the Information Design & Data Visualization (IDDV) graduate program centers in building an information design mindset. Throughout the semester, in ARTG 5100 Info Design Studio 1, students engage in a range of projects from…
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Creativity + Science Conversations
Despite the many challenges, COVID restrictions pushed society to explore new ways of doing familiar tasks that before had been truly unthinkable. One of these tasks was teaching: rethinking the traditional in-person modality of instruction brought many headaches and a big learning curve, but also opened the door to new opportunities, like being able to…
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Creativity & Science: New Course for PhDs
Teaching creativity and helping people – of any age, background, and level of experience – reconnect with their imagination and creative potential is an extremely rewarding experience. Throughout the journey, people change their perception about external (what the concept means) and internal (their own) creativity and gain confidence in who they are and their ideas.…
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Creativity + Science: Podcast episode
Images from students’ final presentations (Fall, 2022) Domain-specific creativity research in science – such as in biology, chemistry, or ecology – is rare, despite the pressing need for a comprehensive understanding of scientific creativity for enhancing science. Most prior research has focused on studying scientific genius (Big C) rather than the role of creativity in…
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Why imagination matters
Creativity and innovation have become popular words. Just a quick search in Google shows about 663,000,000 and 3,270,000,000 results respectively. Also, many articles from domains unrelated to arts and design have described creativity as the skill to master in the XXI century. In a recent article for The New York Times, Peter Coy discusses how…
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Creativity ≠ Design
Me: My Creativity + Science course is going really well.Colleague: That’s great; so, you are teaching them design, right? Me: No, the class is about creative thinking, not about design at all.Colleague: Ah… but…are these different things? The fact that this conversation happens too often indicates the big misunderstanding that still remains about what creativity…
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Creativity + Science: Understanding the role of problem statements
Last week we arrived at the end of the Creativity + Science course with the final project presentations. This cohort created strong and visually engaging presentations, and did an excellent job communicating their research goals and ideas. Interestingly, some of the ideas presented had similarities with that of the first group. For example, robotics seems…
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Book launch event: A conversation with the authors
Join us next Monday Dec 13th to get a glimpse into the mind of pioneering information designer Will Burtin at this special online book launch event. In our new book, Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design, we reveal the life, work, and mindset of Will Burtin. Taking a deep dive into his…
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NEW BOOK! Communicating Knowledge Visually
After many years in the making and a few roadblocks, I’m delighted to share that the book I co-wrote with R. Roger Remington is finally in press, and it will be available for pre-order in September. Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design presents a timely, in-depth examination of Will Burtin’s work…
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Creativity + Science Course Final Presentations
After eight weeks, this Thursday was the last class of the Creativity + Science online course I taught for science PhD students at the School of Exact and Natural Sciences (University of Mar del Plata, Argentina). The course was structured in two units: Unit 1. Personal creativity: Students learned the science behind creative thinking to…
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I’m a scientist and I’m creative
Yesterday I finished the third class of the online Creativity + Science course I’m teaching for PhD students at the School of Natural and Exact Sciences, University of Mar del Plata in Argentina. We have 12 students of varied backgrounds: biologist, biochemists and chemists; and from different research levels: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year…
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Essential Partnership: Content Experts & Info Designers
Collaboration is one of the 21st century skills to master. Traditionally, in information design, collaborative work involved coordination between writers, editors, and information designers to create effective messaging. But, as the scope of information design work broadens, active collaboration between information designers and content experts has become essential to make scientific, technical or other type…
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