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Yuri Engelhardt, Ph.D.
data visualization information design
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About me I am currently a tenured assistant professor in digital media and culture, communication design and data visualization, at the University of Amsterdam (2003 – Present). I hold an MA degree in medicine (1990), and a Ph.D. in computer science (2002). I am an Associate Fellow of the Communication Research Institute (Australia), and there are various international committees and boards that I am a member of, including the Editorial Board of the Information Design Journal (2001 – Present). I currently divide my time between the Netherlands and Costa Rica. Contact me at: yuri.engelhardt (at) gmail (dot) com
Coming up soon
Master theses recently completed under my supervision: Google Earth’s contribution to the climate change debate By Xander Stolwijk. Enhancing the documentary with data visualization By Ekaterina Yudin. |
Recent stuff
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Note: The Language of Graphics
is out of print, but can be browsed and 'full-text-searched'
here
(a summary and some other information is
here).
My contributions to books: Graphics – Neurath, Rosling, and the universal principles of visual representations (in print).
Diagrams for the masses:
Raising public awareness - from Neurath to Gapminder and Google Earth (with
Raul Niño Zambrano).
Network nations (with Ben
Schouten) (scanned
pdf). In:
Else/Where
(also
here): Mapping
– New cartographies of
networks and territories (2006). Objects and spaces: The visual
language of graphics. See
here and here. In:
Diagrammatic representation and inference (2006). A meta-taxonomy for diagram
research
(with Alan Blackwell). See here
&
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).
Thanks to
Google, see
a few books
that
Here are some (titles of) papers I
have (co-)authored (for references see Google Scholar for
some of my writings): Syntactic Structures in Graphics (pdf, 350 kB) (2007, also online). My critical review of Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence (2007).
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) (with D. Wang and H. Zeevat).
Towards a design theory
for visualization (1996). |
My teaching Programs in which I have been lecturing include Media Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Journalism, Graphic Design, Science Communication, and others.
I have developed and taught a large
number of courses at Bachelor, Master, and Research Master levels - here is a
selection of recent ones:
And here are
some BA
courses in New Media that
I have
developed and taught in 2003-2006 (description in Dutch):
New
media objects,
Interaction
design,
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.
I am also a
lecturer at the Utrecht Graduate School
of Visual Art and Design (see
my page there), where I am teaching: Information graphics in the MA program
Editorial Design
(also see
here
and
here). Fifteen years ago, I co-taught Automatic visualization (1997) and Formal perspectives on visual representation (1996). Together with Juan Carlos Dürsteler (InfoVis) I have co-developed courses on information visualization for the Istituto Europeo di Design and for the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona.
In addition to lecturing at universities,
art academies, museums and other institutions and events in the Netherlands, I’ve enjoyed
traveling to give presentations
in, for example, Barcelona, Berlin, Cambridge (UK), Coventry,
Edinburgh, Hamburg, Hannover,
Ljubljana
(Slovenia),
London,
Palo Alto (Stanford University), Paris (e.g. at the
OECD, on 'Engaging Citizens with Animated Statistics'),
Pittsburgh (Carnegie Mellon University), Rio de Janeiro (invited
opening
keynote), Recife (Brazil), Stockholm, ... |
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Other work-related
activities
I am member of the
Editorial
Board of the
Information
Design Journal (and of the Advisory Committee of the
Brazilian Journal of
Information Design, and on the advisory board of IMAGE - Journal of
Interdisciplinary Image Science).
I am founder and was moderator (1995-1999)
of InfoDesign and InfoDesign-Cafe, the first international
online discussion forums about information
design (see
here and
here).
I was
assistant curator of and contributor
to
the
InfoArcadia
exhibition (1999-2000). Recent memberships of program committees: I participated in a (somewhat lengthy) VizThink webcast discussion about visual language and visual grammar (can also be watched here). Together with Christian Behrens of 'Info Design Patterns' I prepared a session on '(De)-constructing Infographics' for VizThink Berlin, see 'Yuri Engelhardt speaking at VizThink' and blog posts here and here. My background is in health and nutrition, cognitive science, and visual thinking. As a medical student I have worked in health care in various medical centers and hospitals. With my medical degree, I have worked as an infographics-developer for popular science journals, and as a medical librarian at my medical school. |
My educational path has included elementary school in Australia, high school in Germany, college in California, and university in the Netherlands.
At this very moment we are in: the Netherlands.
Some texts that others
have written
about my work
Dutch media about my work:
English:
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