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Yuri
Engelhardt
information visualization visual language theory graphics and diagrams
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About me My academic career started with
studying organic agriculture for developing countries, but I switched to medical
school,
and later to cognitive science. I hold an MA degree in medicine, a Ph.D. in computer science, and I am assistant professor in media and culture, specializing in information visualization. I am enthusiastically teaching in areas ranging from social and environmental issues and sustainability to communication, media and graphic design. A short biography is
here (for VizThink), and another, older one, here
(for the Istituto Europeo di Design). I work at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Contact me at: yuri.engelhardt (at) gmail (dot) com
(with Hans Rosling)
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New stuff - upcoming or recent
See a few of the books
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Note: The Language of Graphics is out of print, but
all pages have been scanned and can be downloaded via this download page. The
introductory chapter (download
pdf, 600 kb) deals with graphic representation, visual language, and the
grammar of graphics.
Contributions to books:
Diagrams for the masses:
Raising public awareness - from Neurath to Gapminder and Google Earth (with
Raul Niño Zambrano).
Network nations (with Ben Schouten).
See here and here.
In: Else/Where: Mapping
– New cartographies of
networks and territories (2006). Objects and spaces: The visual
language of graphics. See here. In:
Diagrammatic representation and inference (2006). A meta-taxonomy for diagram
research
(with Alan Blackwell). See here
(also
here). In: Diagrammatic representation and reasoning (2002).
Grundprinzipien grafischer
Darstellungen. In: Navigation durch Text, Bild und Raum (2001). Meaningful space. In: If/Then: Design implications of new media (1999). In press: a chapter in Diagrams of Architecture, with Alan Blackwell. Here are some (titles of) papers I
have (co-)authored (for references see Google Scholar for
some of my writings): Syntactic Structures in Graphics (pdf, 350 kB) (2007, also here). My critical review of Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence (2007).
Meaningful space:
How graphics use space to convey information (1998).
A taxonomy of
diagram taxonomies (1998).
Structure-preserving
visualization: Towards... (1997). Formal specification of a graphic design theory (1997).
Towards a design theory
for visualization (1996). The visual grammar of information graphics (1996). Images: Some images that are related to my work. (scroll down for more) |
Teaching
I have developed and taught a large
number of courses at Bachelor, Master, and Research Master levels - here is a
selection of recent ones:
And here are
some BA
courses in New Media that
I have
developed and taught in 2003-2006
(description in Dutch):
New
media objects,
Interaction
design,
New
media analysis I,
Digital
culture. Also, for many years now, I have been teaching Philosophy of science, using collaborative visualization assignments and concept mapping. At the Utrecht Graduate School
of Visual Art and Design, I am involved (since 2006) in teaching: Information graphics in the MA program
Editorial Design
(also see
here
and
here). Many years ago, I co-taught Automatic visualization (1997) and Formal perspectives on visual representation (1996). Programs in which I have given guest lectures include Science communication, Journalism, Graphic design, Artificial intelligence, and Human-centered multimedia. I have (co-)developed online courses on Information visualization for the Istituto Europeo di Design (see here) and for the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Presentations
In addition to lecturing at universities,
art academies and other institutions and events in the Netherlands, I’ve enjoyed
traveling to give presentations
in, for example, Barcelona (on
The language
of graphics), Berlin, Cambridge, Coventry, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Hannover, London (e.g. on
Theories
in information design),
Paris,
Pittsburgh, Recife (Brazil), Schwarzenberg
(Austria), Stockholm (one-day course in Information
visualization), and Stanford (e.g.:
Building
blocks of graphics come in syntactic categories). |
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Member of the
Editorial
Board of the
Information
Design Journal (and of the Advisory Committee of the
Brazilian Journal of
Information Design). Founder and moderator (1995-1999)
of InfoDesign and InfoDesign-Cafe, the first international electronic
fora on information
design (see
here and
here). Assistant curator of and contributor
to
the
InfoArcadia
exhibition (1999-2000). Recent/current memberships of program committees: I recently participated in a (somewhat lengthy) VizThink webcast discussion about visual language and visual grammar (can also be watched here). Together with Christian Behrens of Info Design Patterns I prepared a session on (De)-constructing Infographics for VizThink Berlin, see blog posts here and here. Some texts that others
have written
about my work
Dutch media about my work:
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My life My educational path has included
elementary school in Australia, high school in Germany, college in
California, and university in the Netherlands. Early non-academic work experience:
Among other jobs, I’ve been a teaching assistant in a school for
physically handicapped children, as a medical student I have worked in health
care
in various medical centers and hospitals (general practice, psychology,
orthopedics, surgery), and I’ve been an infographics-developer for popular science
journals. I have always been active for sustainable development and for international social responsibility (e.g. during the 2006 flooding in Surinam, I happened to be in Paramaribo, so I helped to coordinate international aid). I am currently a curriculum-co-developer and member of the teaching staff for Future Planet Studies (short descriptions here and here, plus the detailed program - all in Dutch). Future Planet Studies is a new BA program that combines natural sciences and social sciences to study possibilities for sustainable development, focusing on people as well as on the planet .
I love The Story of Stuff. |
