Course overview

Working with data is not a topic, but a skill. In addition to reading, writing, curiosity and the ability to observe, it is increasingly important to see through numbers and through the schematics of the information they absorb daily. Does correlation automatically mean causality? With the transformation of the investigative media, we can see that the shocking revelations are no longer just photographs or leaks of secret documents. Publicly accessible data and the contexts hidden in them provide space for searching, understanding and presenting contexts.

Students have worked work with observation, analysis, concept creation and research. They went with us beyond the visual framework, working simultaneously as reporters and as designers. Graphic design and visual communication went hand in hand to explain the concepts and make the output interesting and accessible to the public.

Course objectives

• Explore "investigative work with data" as one of the necessary skills of the current design or artistic practice.
• To search for information and data and also the ability to convey a strong and clear message.
• Learn a new way of getting to know the world around and see through diagrams of information.
• Discover (perhaps only for yourself) new relationships between message and presentation, between qualitative and quantitative data, simplicity and complexity.
• Communicate information in an interesting, accessible, engaging, but factually correct manner and choose to think critically.
• If possible, try an experiment, work with an error, inaccuracies or manual processing or data acquisition.

Webdesign & programming
Nahuel Gerth
Visual Communication
nahuelgerth.de

Imprint
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
Náměstí Jana Palacha 80, 116 93 Praha 1, Czech Republic.
©UMPRUM, GDVK 2021

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