Professor Erica de Vries, from Laboratory of Educational Sciences, University of Grenoble II, France, gives a visiting lecture on “Learning and training with visualizations: a thought experiment”, on Thursday 26 April at 16:00 in hall T2 (Tietotekniikan talo).

Professor de Vries acts as opponent in Mikko Berg’s dissertation defense on the title “Human abilities to perceive, understand, and manage multi-dimensional information with visualizations” on Friday 27 April at 12 noon in hall AS1 (TUAS).

Welcome!

More information at
http://media.tkk.fi/en/deVries-lecture.html
http://sci.aalto.fi/en/current/events/vaitos_berg_mikko/

A lecture by Severin Wucher: The Interactive Research Table.

Severin Wucher is a designer working in Berlin-based Plural design network.
Severin Wucher’s lecture ends the graphic design course “Perspectives on Visual Communication”, but also other DOM students, researchers and staff members are invited to listen the interesting lecture next Monday.

The Interactive Research Table is a tool to collect, organize, analyse and present complex digital picture archives. Severin Wucher (http://www.pluralvisual.de/) began to develop the Interactive Research Table in 2010 when he worked as a guest professor at the Berlin University of Arts and made research on graphic design history in Germany.

“Doing research on visual objects and the question how to present the results: That is what museums and archives do, and it is a complex process.” Severin Wucher continues: “The use of databases or spreadsheet applications has been making it way easier to organise and overlook extensive research projects, but the researchers are faced with the problem that databases tend to be quite uncomfortable to use or demand an un-intuitive workflows.” – The Interactive Research Table, designed by Plural, gives one solution to that problem. Plural has won two iF Communication Design Awards in 2011.

Severin Wucher is a designer and consultant at Berlin-based design network Plural, specialised in Visual Systems, Editorial Design as well as in Design Research. He taught Information Design as a Guest Professor at the Berlin University of Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) and at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Germany. He gives lectures, holds workshops and takes part in juries at numerous international universities and design-related institutions. Currently he is co-organizing a conference on reforming design education in Germany and is – which turns to be kind of life-task – working on his research project on the history of graphic design in Germany.

Intuition is an integral part of our thinking process. It affects our decision making – even if we are not aware of it. In some situations intuition may produce better solutions than rational reasoning. Intuition can be developed.

Prof. Surel is one of the world´s top experts in the area of intuition. She has been teaching, coaching and researching intuition for over 15 years. In her lecture Prof. Surel illuminates the concept of intuition, its potential and possibilities in its hidden advantages.

Dr. Dominique Surel is a Noetic scientist with over 15 years of international marketing strategy background. She has consulted for major corporations such as Dow Chemical, Gillette, British Telecom, Gaz de France, and London City Airport. Projects involved corporate positioning, identifying potential alliances, and building business-to-business customer loyalty. She has lived and worked both in Europe and the US. She now resides in Colorado, USA.

Some of her other past business experience includes working at Harvard University, Program on Negotiation; MIT, Plasma Fusion Center; and The International Herald Tribune, creating and writing business supplements in Europe.

For the past decade Dr. Dominique Surel has been advising individuals in making intuitive decisions. Through her strategy work, which involves talking to high-level decision-makers, she noticed that most of these individuals rely on their intuition, even though they may not consciously realize it, or if they do, may not be able to articulate exactly what this means. She then came up with the concept that if individuals could understand the nature of intuition, learn how to develop this innate skill, and use it in conjunction with the left-brain functions, this would create an extremely powerful decision-making tool.

After more research which included studying scientific articles and abstracts on the subject, Dr. Dominique Surel developed her own methodology to teach the art and science of intuitive thinking. The added value of this training is the sharpening of the mind and a significant increase in the level of creativity.

Dominique Surel is a Professor at the Energy Medicine University, CA, offering graduate and doctoral courses in Spiritual Leadership, Critical Thinking, Intuitive Intelligence, and Controlled Remote Viewing.

Intuition is an integral part of our thinking process. It affects our decision making – even if we are not aware of it. In some situations intuition may produce better solutions than rational reasoning. Intuition can be developed.

Prof. Surel is one of the world´s top experts in the area of intuition. She has been teaching, coaching and researching intuition for over 15 years. In her lecture Prof. Surel illuminates the concept of intuition, its potential and its hidden value.

Degrees
Doctoral Degree – Organizational Leadership (2007, University of Phoenix)
MBA (Webster University; London, UK)
B.A. International Relations (Regis College; Boston, USA)

Additional Training
Controlled Remote Viewing – formal trainings with L. Buchanan.
Emotional Intelligence
Leadership: Wisdom in the Workplace

Memberships
Institute for Scientific Exploration – Co-Founder
Society for Scientific Exploration: Council Member
International Remote Viewing Association
Institute for Noetic Sciences – Associate
International Leadership Association

Mlab Doctor of Arts programme, MA students are more than welcome as well.

Angela Dalle Vacche: The Difference of Cinema in the System of the Arts

In this lecture I will argue that the arts, especially literature, theatre and painting, are useful to answer Andre Bazin’s famous question “What is Cinema?” The place of architecture and design in regard to cinema will also be discussed.

However, the scientific origins of this medium are, in the end, even more crucial than its aesthetic ones. Based on illusion and belief, the cinema is also how and where the world can record itself in the image of itself, because the non-human eye of the camera, instead of the human hand, is in charge of the tracing.

In the end, by grounding cinema into science and technology much more than in the arts, the cinema is really about the problem of the human soul, the oscillation between religion and science, absence and presence. For “What is Cinema?” After all, nothing more nor less than the flickering produced by still photo-grams running through the sprockets of the projector at 24 frames per second.

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Angela Dalle Vacche is a specialist in the intersection of aesthetic theory and film history, Angela Dalle Vacche was born in Venice, Italy and came to the United States in 1978. She has graduate degrees in American Studies and in Film Studies from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Iowa. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Travel Grant, a Mellon Fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio Grant, and a Leverhulme Distinguished Professorship at the University of London, Birkbeck College, History of Art. Her retrospective: Italian Silent Divas: Passion and Defiance, for the 2000 New York Film Festival was voted as “Best Event Of The Year” by Art Forum. Dalle Vacche regularly works with the Cineteca di Bologna, The Nederlands Film Museum, Anthology Film Archive in New York, and DAMS/Gorizia in Italy. She has also lectured in Dublin, Vienna, Paris, and Portugal.

Marja Seliger is Professor of Graphic Design Research at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Her doctoral dissertation (2008) was a research about visual rhetoric in outdoor advertising. Currently she continues to research graphic design and visual communication in multidisciplinary projects combining design research, communication studies, sustainability and visual culture. She teaches graphic design and supervises doctoral students at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Marja Seliger has an extensive working experience as a professional graphic designer in Finland and abroad. She worked over six years as a UNESCO graphics and production expert in educational projects in Africa and in the Caribbean region. In 1990’s she led the graphic design department in Edita, a Finnish printing and publishing house.

In 2001 Marja Seliger was employed by the University of Lapland to start a Graphic Management Masters’ of Art programme. She was an acting professor of graphic design at the University of Lapland and since 2009 a graphic design researcher at the Aalto University.

Marja Seliger is the vice-president of Grafia, the Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland.

Research projects and publications:

https://reseda.taik.fi/Taik/jsp/taik/Researcher.jsp?lang_global=en&id=24016