Special Guests
Alberto Cairo
MIAMI UNIVERSITY
Alberto Cairo is Professor of Data Visualization and Infographics at the University of Miami, School of Communication and Institute of Computational Sciences. Cairo is a journalist who has led teams of visualization designers at publications in Spain, Brazil, and the US. He is the author of four books, most recently 'The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think' (2013) and 'How Charts Lie' (2009). Cairo is also a consultant for technology companies such as Google and Microsoft, for US government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, and for international bodies such as the World Bank.
Don Norman
Professor Emeritus University of California, San Diego
Don Norman is Distinguished Professor (emeritus), Founder and first Director of the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego. He has been a Vice President of Advanced Technology at Apple and an executive at HP. He is co-founder of the Nielsen Norman group, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, fellow of numerous societies with honorary degrees from Delft, Padua, and San Marino. He received, a lifetime achievement award from ACM’s Computer-Human Interaction group, the President’s lifetime achievement award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished service to design education from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1821, London, UK, the Design Guru Award from The Institute of Design, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur India. In 2022 he received the Frontier Design Prize from the World Design Cities Conference and the Design Innovation Institute, Shanghai with guidance from the Shanghai Municipal government. He is currently an advisor to Tongji University (Shanghai) and the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytech and was a distinguished visiting professor at the Korean Advanced Institute of Technology for three years. He has published 20 books translated into 20 languages including Emotional Design and Design of Everyday Things. His latest book is “Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered.” He can be found at www.jnd.org.
Fernanda Martins
Mapinguari design
Fernanda Martins is a designer, researcher, university professor and director of Mapinguari Design who works in strategic and sustainable design, especially in the Amazon. She holds a PhD in History of Design at ESDI/UERJ. She attended a Masters in Graphic Design and Typography at the Basel School of Design, Switzerland and a specialization in Semiotics and Visual Culture, at the Federal University of Pará. She graduated in Visual Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at USP - University of São Paulo. Creator of the Letras que Flutuam Project, which investigates and disseminates the sign painters from the Amazon by carrying out mappings, exhibitions, workshops and the documentaries “Letras que Flutuam” and “Marajó das Letras”. The Letras que Flutuam project was selected in the Rumos do Itaú Cultural public notice in 2016, which resulted in the documentary “Marajó das Letras”, in 2018 it received, in the Intangible Heritage Category, the Rodrigo de Mello Franco de Andrade Award from IPHAN and a mention in the Bienal Interamericana de Diseño in Madrid.
Isabel Meirelles
OCAD Toronto
Isabel Meirelles is an information designer and Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, Toronto, where she teaches in the Graphic Design Program and in Graduate Studies (2015–). Meirelles is the recipient of the 2015/2016 OCAD University Award for Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. From 2003 to 2014, she was a professor in the department of Art and Design, College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, Boston, where she helped create the graduate program in Information Design and Data Visualization. Isabel’s research focuses on the study of the fundamentals underlying how information is structured, represented, and communicated in different media. In addition to writing widely on the role of information design and visualization in society, culture, and education, she co-founded and co-organized numerous conferences and exhibitions on the topic, including the Information+ conferences (2016, 2018, 2021), the Arts Humanities and Complex Networks symposia (2010–2015) and the Art of Networks exhibits (2012, 2015, 2018). Isabel is the author of Design for Information: An introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations (Rockport, 2013). Meirelles frequently teams up with colleagues on interdisciplinary projects involving the design of visualizations. In her creative practice, she collaborates with artists and curators to design digital and print publications of their work.
José Duarte
Easydataviz
José Duarte is a Colombian designer and easydataviz.co founder. Easydataviz explores the relationship between information and citizens through playful and joyful participatory data experiences that usually take place (but not exclusively) in public space. His work is all about designing participatory data devices to explain and engage people with difficult issues to triggering meaningful conversations. His work has been published by Gestalten’s books Visual Storytelling and Infographics; Designing and visualizing information and Making with data: Participatory devices. His work also has taken part in the Open Design Vienna and the Data Literacy events and we have done workshops and lectures in Colombia, Slovakia, Chile, Spain, France, Mexico, Peru and other 10 countries around the world promoting a playful approach to data. So, if you are keen to learn about analog data visualization or make public participatory interventions you are in good hands : )
Sara Goldchmit
São Paulo University
Sara Goldchmit is an assistant professor of design at the University of São Paulo School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAUUSP). She is the founder and coordinator of the Design for Health Research Lab (designparasaude.fau.usp.br) and the leader of the research group Design and Innovation in Health (CNPq). Her main research interest lies in the interactions between design, healthcare and wellbeing, with a focus on information design to promote individual and social change.
Roxana Martinez
Los Andes University
Roxana Martinez is a Graphic Designer from Universidad Nacional, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Master in Design at Universidad de los Andes, Specialist in Theory of Communication Design and Master in Cultural Studies. Designer dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of vernacular graphics through the Populardelujo collective, a project of which she co-founded with Esteban Ucrós and Juan Esteban Duque, and which since 2001 has been dedicated to investigating this visual culture with special emphasis on mapping and working closely with their authors. Together with them she held exhibitions, workshops, conferences, publications and numerous projects in different parts of the world. Populardelujo highlights the value of an underappreciated visual culture, contributing to giving greater visibility to people, communities, experiences and customs that have not been sufficiently represented in Latin America. She is also the author of the project "LETRAS HECHAS A MANO" (Handmade Letters), which involves research and creation focused on the craft of making hand-painted signs. This project brings together her interest in studying letterforms, teaching and learning writing, and popular graphics.