Our living environment and the ways we coexistence, communicate and act are in constant flux. Data and its visualisation is a key resource for the representation and comprehension of these phenomena. Our cultural coexistence, the education and health sectors, the economy and the research sector are just some of the areas from which new issues and fields of activity emerge that we can only discuss with the help of visualisations and spatial data models. Innovative forms of information research and representation allow for the interplay of publicity, economy and science to be visualised and made experienceable. The role of data designers is to disentangle the existing web of data and to design clear visual information.
The Data Design + Art programme is for people interesting in data as a subject and as an object of design practice. More than anything else, you should be curious, open and ready to engage with different data phenomena. You are keen to develop skills in the fields of graphic design, motion design, creative coding, generative design, storytelling and data analytics. Your way of thinking crosses disciplines and you enjoy developing solutions both for virtual and physical spaces that appeal to all senses and can be experienced through vision, hearing and touch. You are comfortable switching between applied, investigative and experimental approaches. Above all, you cannot wait to develop your own position, to insert yourself into social discourses as a designer and help to shape the future.
