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Category Archives: Afterword
Information design research at Loddon Observatory showcase
This week, postgraduate researcher, Josefina Bravo, gave a rapid presentation of part of her PhD research to members of the Loddon Observatory. The session featured a wealth of environmental research on farming, water quality and sustainable agriculture. Josefina’s research into … Continue reading
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Recent research presentation roundup
Sue Walker gave a keynote talk at the Design4Health conference organised by Sheffield Hallam University, 3–6 September 2018 entitled ‘Getting the message across: communication design and healthcare’. Here she discussed the role of communication design in explaining the science behind … Continue reading
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Following from Understanding Risk 2018
In follow up to our post on the Understanding Risk Forum in Mexico, where Matthew Lickiss was part of the organising team for a Pressure Cooker workshop to develop new ways of communicating about risk of and response to natural … Continue reading
Parliamentary event – Designing information for public understanding
We were delighted by the enthusiastic, capacity attendance on 5 February at a parliamentary event to raise awareness of the importance of designing information for public understanding, and to celebrate our book Information design research and practice. The evening, co-organised … Continue reading
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Designing for Europe
Information designers, typographers, type designers, and europhiles will be interested in Paul Luna’s talk at ATypI in Montréal last week in which he presented materials from Reading’s archive of the graphic designers, Banks & Miles, whose work included communication design … Continue reading
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Typographic presentation and how people read legal information
This week, CIDR researcher Jeanne-Louise Moys shared her research on typography and document design with legal and plain language practitioners at a Clarity breakfast talk. Her talk explored how effective typography can improve how people engage with legal and complex information, as … Continue reading
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Inclusive design at University of Reading
CIDR member, Jeanne-Louise Moys, met with MP, Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Disabled People, who visited University of Reading yesterday to learn more about the University’s Breaking Down Barriers project. Breaking Down Barriers aims to embed inclusive design in the University’s … Continue reading
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‘…communication is also hard, actually…’
‘The science is hard, the communication is also hard, actually; the policy making is also extremely hard.’ This is how Sir Mark Wallport, summed up the challenge of communicating and decision-making, given the complexity of the science behind weather and … Continue reading
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Visualising uncertainty, MA ID workshop
Last Friday CIDR ran a workshop with the MA Information Design course, investigating the visualisation of natural hazard and meteorological uncertainty information. A fictional design scenario was used for the day, along with a series of mocked-up forecast documents, representing … Continue reading
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Uncertainty and visualization in volcanic ash forecasting
Alison Black and Matthew Lickiss accompanied colleagues Kelsey Mulder, Andrew Charlton-Perez and Rachel McCloy, from the University of Reading’s Meteorology and Psychology Departments to a workshop on Volcanic Ash Forecasting at the Royal Academy of Engineering. This was part of CIDR’s collaboration on … Continue reading
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