I had heard quite a few things about Marcia Bates through my class with Prof. Hartel, mostly that she was this femme-extraordinaire with the ability and passion to identify just how interdisciplinary the field of information is, and advocating endlessly for a more cohesive direction in the fundamental understandings of information scientists, by, well, information scientists. After all, if we can’t agree which directly is the right one, and no one has presented a persuasive enough argument for any particular approach, we’d lose focus and momentum. In a way, I believe that my ability to pursue my interdisciplinary pursuit is in part due to grounds established by Bates, Sonnenwald, and many others whom I have yet to meet, whether I am aware of it or not. A healthy respect for tradition is not a forfeiting of innovation, but finding a network of mentors and supporters who also has a healthy respect for what you are trying to forge. Marcia Bates, if you ever get to meet her, will strike you immediate as one of those mentors.
Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Visual Thinking Finale
In Design, Misc. on June 17, 2009 at 8:20 pmI’m too pooped to write much, except that Lysanne and I have been working like crazy juggling our already busy lives with a presentation to match the quality work that our classmates have turned out over the last 6 weeks. Consider all of us started out 1.5 month ago with no clue what our artifacts might we, I think we generated a lot of great ideas that have long-term potential. Join us between 5-8 if you’re near St. George station to join in on the conversation. When I have sufficiently recouped next week, or down with a swollen knee after next Friday’s surgery, there’ll be more detailed updates. I have a lot of writing to catch up on.
As an aside: I’m super proud of what my class did back in January with the On-Demand Book Service project. Check out my System Team’s final report!
June 18 – Perception and the Process of Visual Thinking
Invited speaker: Colin Ware, Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab, University of New Hampshire and author of “Visual Thinking for Design”
*Please note different location*:
Bissel Building, 140 St. George Street, Room 728 at 5:15pm
Syncronous Objects
In Design, music-esque on April 6, 2009 at 12:35 pmThis is beautiful. A visualization of choreographic information around William Forsythe’s “One Flat Thing”. It’s multi-faceted, engaging, inspiring, and just beautiful to play with. Now, if I only understood dance…
via infosthetics.com.
