Table of Contents

Foreword, Karel van der Waarde (Graphic Design Consultant, Belgium) Introduction, Ian Gwilt (University of South Australia) Part One: Theories 1. Data Objects Thinking With Your Hands, Adrien Segal (California College of the Arts, USA) 2. Shifting Data between the Material and the Virtual is Not an Immaterial Matter, Dew Harrison (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 3. Data as Environment: Physicalization Strategies for Communicating Environmental Data, Dietmar Offenhuber (Northeastern University, USA) and Laura Perovich (MIT, USA) 4. Designing Explanations of Data-based Interactions in Socio-Technical Systems, Aaron Fry (Parsons School of Design, USA) 5. Moving Data: Visualizing Human and Nonhuman Movement Artistically, Michele Barker and Anna Munster (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part Two: Practices 6. Uncanny Landscapes: Experiential Encounters with Ecological Data, Zoë Sadokierski, Monica Monin and Andrew Burrell (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 7. Exploring Digital-material Hybridity in the Postdigital Museum, Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 8. Socio-material Translations of Data and Value(s), Bettina Nissen (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9. Personal Data Manifestation: A Tangible Poetics of Data, Giles Lane (Proboscis, UK) and George Roussos (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 10. Data and Emotion: The Climate Change Object, Karin von Ompteda (OCAD, Canada) Part Three: Techniques 11. Hybrid Data Constructs: Interacting with Biomedical Data in Augmented Spaces, Daniel F. Keefe, Bridger Herman, Jung Who Nam, Daniel Orban and Seth Johnson (University of Minnesota, USA) 12. Sonic Data Physicalization, Stephen Barrass (University of Canberra, Australia) 13. Making with Climate Data: Materiality, Metaphor and Engagement, Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe (Australian National University) 14. Waterfalls as a Form of AI-based Feedback for Creativity Support, Georgi V. Georgiev and Yazan Barhoush (University of Oulu, Finland) 15. Data as Action: Constructing Dynamic Data Physicalizations, Jason Alexander (University of Bath, UK) Part Four: Trajectories 16. Making Data: The Next Generation, Ian Gwilt and Aaron Davis (University of South Australia)

Promotional Information

This is the first work to explore the theory, history and processes of physical representations of data.

About the Author

Ian Gwilt is Professor of Design at the University of South Australia.

Reviews

A valuable counterpoint to the popular idea that data visualization is beautiful, this book provides a thoughtful and pragmatic position on material and experiential manifestations of data. It contains an array of perspectives on the subject, including the history of data’s material manifestations and the challenges of achieving human-centred design with increasingly complex socio-technical problems.
*Peter A. Hall, Reader in Graphic Design, UAL Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon, UK*

This is a fascinating anthology of fresh thinking on how we can understand our world through data. Materialist, sensory and phenomenological approaches to knowledge — long practiced in the Arts — are now having increasing impact on other disciplines. This book provides numerous examples and ideas on how materializing information can lead to more nuanced understandings and heightened engagement with data. Covering theory, practice and methodologies, this is an expansive and unique collection on the materialization of digital information
*Jon McCormack, SensiLab Director, Monash University, Australia*