Event Details
Visualization can take many forms from the traditional sketch of a mechanical artifact, the storyboard of a time-based scenario, or the simple napkin-sketch diagram of a business strategy. What unites them all will be the topic of this presentation. Industrial designer, author, and Columbia College Chicago professor Kevin Henry will explore what goes on in designer’s brains as they work to visualize ideas. Combining current brain science research with psychology, aesthetics, and a brief history of visualization spanning more than 500 years, the author will illustrate why visualization is so crucial in this age of information.
Program
6:00 PM-6:30 PM: Registration
6:30 PM-7:45 PM: Presentation and Q&A
7:45 PM-9:00 PM: Midway Club
Speaker Profiles
Kevin Henry (Speaker)
Full time faculty and coordinator of Product Design, Art and Design Dept. Columbia
Kevin Henry is an industrial designer, educator, curator, and writer interested in the intersection between design, technology, and culture. He has lectured widely in a variety of contexts on a variety of topics including sustainability, hacking and modifying technology, design visualization, and the changing nature of photography in the era of social networking. He has published articles in a variety of journals and on-line websites including the industrial design supersite Core77. Curated exhibitions include a recent show on contemporary Chinese industrial design and d.i.y. culture. He is finishing up his first book due out in early 2012 on design visualization with the UK publisher Laurence King.
Questions
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