#CONFERENCE: #Data #Across #Scales @HarvardGSD

Be sure to join us next Friday April 17th if you are in the Harvard Graduate School of Design area. Wendy W Fok will be moderating the “Open Data and Civic Media” session: https://datascales.wordpress.com/

Bringing together design researchers and practitioners, the conference inquires into the role of ‘data’ in design and how it is steering its practice across all scales.

With the rapid increase of information technologies in our personal and professional lives, we produce, share, collect, archive, use and misuse, consciously or unconsciously an immense amount of data. This burst of data production and collection has already had a profound impact on the way we organise ourselves as a community. It drastically changes the way in which we conceive, materialize and experience designs and the physical world. These on-going transformations have permeated all layers of social debates including issues of openness, transparency and civil participation.

The conference will comprise four panels, “Data-driven design”, “Programming the physical world”, “Urban design and big data” and “Open data and civic media”, and a poster session that aim to reveal and discuss how the accessibility and processing of ‘data’ is shifting the design practices.

Data Across Scales: Reshaping Design

Data Across Scales: Reshaping Design

Data Across Scales: Reshaping Design