“Visualizing the City: Now in Progress”
Siqi Zhu
Senior Designer, Sasaki
Friday, March 16, 2018
12 PM - 1:30 PM
West Village G Room 102, Northeastern University
450 Parker Street
Boston, MA 02115
Pizza will be served
About the speaker: Siqi Zhu is a senior designer at Boston-based design firm Sasaki, and a lecturer in information design in the MFA Program in Information Design and Visualization. Previously, he was a research fellow at MIT Senseable City Lab
and led the lab’s visualization projects in Cambridge and Singapore. Working at the intersection between information design and the built environment, and between design research and professional practice, Siqi’s work investigates how information design can
shed new light on the complex social, political, and behavioral forces that shape the contemporary urban condition, and how such knowledge can galvanize collective action.
About NUVis: The
Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) is an interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization
community. Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College
of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research. NUVis sponsors talks and symposia including a bi-weekly seminar, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support
visualization-related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library-sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions.