Dr. Peter Hall. Public lecture "Critical Visualisation (quantified self/data & the city)”
October 17, Tuesday, 13.00-14.00, room 112, Maironio 3, “Titanikas"
Dr. Peter Hall (M) is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, BA Graphic Communication Design.
Dr. Hall’s research focuses on mapping and visualization as critical and participatory practices. He is currently co-writing a critical guide to data visualization (Bloomsbury Academic 2020) and is researching alternative approaches to visualizing risk and security with the creative securities group at Royal Holloway University of London. He is a steering committee member of a CSM Climate Emergency working group currently producing an interactive film on the climate and ecological crisis for all UAL students. Dr Hall was previously Programme Director of BA Design and Design Futures at Griffith University Queensland College of Art in Australia (2012-15), Senior Lecturer in Design at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007-12), and Lecturer in Graphic Design at Yale School of Art, USA (2000-2007). His books include Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories (edited with Janet Abrams, University of Minnesota 2006)). He is co-founder of DesignInquiry, a non-profit educational organisation devoted to researching design issues in intensive team-based gatherings, based in Maine, USA.
