Abstract
This paper considers the process and unveils the outcomes of a project that involves aggregating and visualizing the video conferencing interactions that took place in a series of Zoom meetings amongst design faculty from various disciplines. Beginning in January of 2021, the University of Minnesota’s College of Design hosted a series of online dialogue and scholarly discussions amongst all of its design disciplines, which are Apparel Design, Architecture, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Product Design, and Retail Merchandising. Led by faculty and all held syncrhonously over Zoom, the result was an interdisciplinary engagement where everyone can learn something meaningful from each other and initiate dialogues that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred at regular faculty meetings. At each dialogue session, zoom video recordings, audio transcripts, and chat logs were saved for archiving purposes. In addition to making these records available to everyone at the college, a series of visualizations were created to allow people to asynchronously engage with the ideas and resources that were shared at each meeting. The outcome was a combination of conventional and experimental visualizations that provide a visual overview of the meetings and help discover additional insights and connections that did not occur at the live sessions. We hope that this visualization project will be considered as one of many possibilities in how data visualization can help facilitate interdisciplinary dialogues and propose a graphical structure in how conversations are recorded, archived, and disseminated.
Presenters
Eugene ParkAssociate Professor, College of Design, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Design Management and Professional Practice
KEYWORDS
Data Visualization, User Interface Design, Interdisciplinary Dialogue
