gaia scagnetti
Dr. Gaia Scagnetti is an expert in Visual Epistemology as well as Information Visualization and Mapping.
Her current research investigates the impact of Information Visualization on design discourse with a focus on design education.
At present she is full-time Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute's Graduate Communications department in New York.
In 2010 Gaia Scagnetti completed a Post Doctoral research at the Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As Researcher and Design Strategist at MIT she conducted qualitative research for design in the topic of social sustainability, connectivity and mobility. In 2009 she obtained a PhD degree cum Meritus in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication at the Politecnico di Milano. During the doctoral research Gaia has worked as a designer and researcher at the DensityDesignLab in Milan, where she carried out research, design projects and teaching activities on Information Visualization and Mapping.
Her works have been featured in several conferences and exhibitions (DesignEd, HyperUrbain.2, the MIT Humanities + Digital Conference, NetSci2010 - Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks, SIGGRAPH09 Emerging technology Conference, the MediaLAB Prado – Visualizar08) and publications and showcases (DataFlow 2, VisualComplexity.com, Mapping pattern of information, Malofiej 19, Visual storytelling, Parson Journal of Information Mapping). Her complete portfolio can be found at www.namedgaia.com.
Her current research investigates the impact of Information Visualization on design discourse with a focus on design education.
At present she is full-time Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute's Graduate Communications department in New York.
In 2010 Gaia Scagnetti completed a Post Doctoral research at the Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As Researcher and Design Strategist at MIT she conducted qualitative research for design in the topic of social sustainability, connectivity and mobility. In 2009 she obtained a PhD degree cum Meritus in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication at the Politecnico di Milano. During the doctoral research Gaia has worked as a designer and researcher at the DensityDesignLab in Milan, where she carried out research, design projects and teaching activities on Information Visualization and Mapping.
Her works have been featured in several conferences and exhibitions (DesignEd, HyperUrbain.2, the MIT Humanities + Digital Conference, NetSci2010 - Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks, SIGGRAPH09 Emerging technology Conference, the MediaLAB Prado – Visualizar08) and publications and showcases (DataFlow 2, VisualComplexity.com, Mapping pattern of information, Malofiej 19, Visual storytelling, Parson Journal of Information Mapping). Her complete portfolio can be found at www.namedgaia.com.
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This research discusses the future impact of these incipient forces have upon the contemporary discourse on the field of Visual Languages and the consequent significance and impact for Communication Design education. It presents a theoretical framework based on the difference between the use of visualization as a medium for communication and visualization as a tool for generating knowledge. It develops and discusses the potentials of a Visual epistemology for Communication Design education.
This project communicates the history and development of Information Visualization discipline through an educational piece the audience can physically interact with. The visualized data are the results of an empirical work—the case study of 30 design projects developed in Information Visualization between 2005 and 2011—conducted in collaboration with the Austrian Institute of Technology. The resulting diagram has been transformed in an interactive three dimensional piece as part of an exhibition on diagrammatic reasoning.
The piece shows the story of Information Visualization, from past to future. It traces its expansion and features the projects that have had great influence on the discipline. It suggests potential directions where this field may develop in the near future. In the piece, each tin represents a project that participated in the development of Information Visualization. Each tin contains a description of the project, author, data, and a QR code linking the project website. The red circles diameters indicate the relative impact each project had on the field of Information Visualization. The right wall shows the subjects and disciplines where Information Visualization will have great influence in the future. Projects are grouped by subject and distributed chronologically within the groups.
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This research discusses the future impact of these incipient forces have upon the contemporary discourse on the field of Visual Languages and the consequent significance and impact for Communication Design education. It presents a theoretical framework based on the difference between the use of visualization as a medium for communication and visualization as a tool for generating knowledge. It develops and discusses the potentials of a Visual epistemology for Communication Design education.
This project communicates the history and development of Information Visualization discipline through an educational piece the audience can physically interact with. The visualized data are the results of an empirical work—the case study of 30 design projects developed in Information Visualization between 2005 and 2011—conducted in collaboration with the Austrian Institute of Technology. The resulting diagram has been transformed in an interactive three dimensional piece as part of an exhibition on diagrammatic reasoning.
The piece shows the story of Information Visualization, from past to future. It traces its expansion and features the projects that have had great influence on the discipline. It suggests potential directions where this field may develop in the near future. In the piece, each tin represents a project that participated in the development of Information Visualization. Each tin contains a description of the project, author, data, and a QR code linking the project website. The red circles diameters indicate the relative impact each project had on the field of Information Visualization. The right wall shows the subjects and disciplines where Information Visualization will have great influence in the future. Projects are grouped by subject and distributed chronologically within the groups.