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Yuri
Engelhardt
information visualization graphics and diagrams |
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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 of media and culture. A short biography is here
(for a training I gave for the Istituto Europeo di Design). Currently I work at the University of
Amsterdam (see my staff
page). Mail me at: engelhardt (at)
uva (dot) nl |
Presentations: In addition to lecturing at universities,
art academies and other institutions in the Netherlands, I’ve enjoyed
traveling to give presentations
in, for example, Barcelona (on
The language
of graphics), Berlin (Epson), Cambridge, Coventry, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Hannover, London (on Theories
in information design and on
Explanatory
and instructional graphics, see also here),
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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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: 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.
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). A recent paper of mine is Syntactic Structures in Graphics (pdf, 350 kB) (2007, in: Computational Visualistics and Picture Morphology, also here). Here are some titles of papers I
have (co-)authored (see
some
of my writings at Google Scholar for references): 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). |
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, the first international electronic forum on information
design (see here and
here). Assistant curator of and contributor
to InfoArcadia. Recent/current memberships of
program committees: 3rd
Information Design International Conference and Diagrams
2008. Some texts that others wrote
about my work Very brief review of The Language of Graphics (2007).
Illustrated
explanation of my notion of graphic syntax (2004).
Student
report of a lecture I gave in Barcelona (2003). Article about my grammar of
graphics (2002). A critical
review of The language of graphics (2002). Dutch media about my work: Duidelijke
taal van een plaatje (de Volkskrant, 1996), Yuri Engelhardt en de taal van
het visuele (Tekstblad, 2007). My stuff on the
web |
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Teaching At the University of Amsterdam I have (co-)developed
and taught a large number of courses at BA and MA levels - here is a
selection: Structure &
rhetoric of multimodal representations, Information
visualization (also here), Pictorial
languages, graphics and visual information. Core
courses about new media (description in Dutch): Interaction
design, New
media objects, 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 in teaching: Information graphics in the MA program
Editorial Design
(also see
here
and here). Many years ago, I co-taught: Automatic visualization
and Formal perspectives on
visual representation. 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. |
My life My educational path has included
elementary school in Australia, high school in Germany, college in
California, and university in the Netherlands. My main interest in life is in people. 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 now contributing to the curriculum development of Future Planet Studies (descriptions in Dutch here and here): a new BA program that combines natural sciences and social sciences to study possibilities for sustainable development. For some nice examples of visualizations that help to raise public awareness about such topics see Visualizing Information for Advocacy, Gapminder, Google Earth Outreach, and The Story of Stuff. |
