CALL GUIDELINES

Purpose of the call

The purpose of this call is the selection of 5 theoretical works about data visualization for their public presentation during the VISUALIZAR'09: Public Data, Data in Public symposium. The open call is aimed at researchers, curators, artists, educators in the fields of graphic design, art, sociology, architecture, urbanism, education, psychology, information science, environmental studies, mathematics, statistics, scientific visualization, computer analysis, computer science, physics or any other field where data visualization may be applied or may contribute valuable innovations.

• How to facilitate the use and understanding of data from public administrations and scientific research, whether it is academic or not.
• How to foster citizen innovation processes and public decision-making and governance processes.
• How to set up participatory data gathering mechanisms.
• Proposed formulas for presenting data in the public arena.

Rules for participants

Everyone interested in participating in this symposium must send a summary of their research and a brief curriculum vitae via the application form that you will find below. For a better evaluation of the applications, we recommend to send the complete text as an attached file, in addition to the summary.

Proposals may be presented as an individual or as a group. Each participant or team may present as many projects as they wish.

Application deadline

The application deadline is October 5, 2009

Selection process

Winners will be announced on October 14, 2009.

The selection committee will comprise the leding tutors of the Visualizar workshop, the director of the platform, and Medialab-Prado.

Valuation criteria

• Originality and interest of the proposal
• Suitability to the general purpose of Visualizar and to the specific objectives of this call
• Current status of the research process
• Educational value

Public presentation

Selected works will be presented publicly by their authors throughout the symposium, in 20 minute sessions followed by a 10 minute debate. Selected works will also be published on the Visualizar website.

Travel and lodging aid

Pending application, Medialab-Prado will provide lodging in a Youth Hostel for participants residing outside of Madrid and will consider the possibility of covering travel expenses wholly or in part, on a case by case basis.

Collaboration in the production workshop

An advanced project production workshop will be held simultaneously to th Seminar. Multidisciplinary task groups composed of the author/s and interested collaborators will develop eight projects selected through an international open call. 

Medialab-Prado encourages paper applicants to take part as collaborators in the workshop after the Seminar. The call for collaborators will be issued on October 16, 2009 at Medialab-Prado's website and will be closed on November 11.

More information

visualizar[at]medialab-prado.es

Entry constitutes acceptance of all contest rules.

 

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