[Workshop] Data representation as invitation, by Jer Thorp
In this workshop, we'll investigate how publicly-sited data visualizations, sonifications and physicalizations might serve to invite people to visit and investigate wild spaces like parks and nature preserves. We'll learn how to access and analyze data from eBird and iNaturalist and collectively prototype and test new invitational possibilities.
Jer Thorp is an artist, writer and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times' first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Jer is one of the world's foremost data artists, and is a leading voice for the ethical use of big data.
CM-A Computational Design Event Series: Zones Unseen
The Spring 2026 CM-A Computational Design Event Series Zones Unseen brings researchers and practitioners across architecture, data visualization, robotics, visual studies, and cybernetics to illuminate contemporary blind spots in design practice and culture. From interrogating the socio-technics of AI in architecture and time-based media to diffracting the nature of data and of scientific practice, the speakers will shed light on contemporary technologies’ unfolding within the social, material, and visual worlds of design.