Test Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Note: Manuel Lima's lecture is free and open to the public. Seats, however, are limited. Please reserve your seat for his lecture on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 here: RSVP.
Manuel Lima's keynote lecture "The Power of Networks" will be held at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 in the BLUU Ballroom.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, nominated by Creativity magazine as "one of the 50 most creative and influential minds of 2009", Manuel Lima is the Design Lead of Codecademy.com, the founder of VisualComplexity.com, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design.
Manuel has worked for Microsoft, Nokia, R/GA, and Kontrapunkt. He holds a BFA in Industrial Design and a MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design, New York. During the course of the MFA program, Manuel worked for Siemens Corporate Research Center, the American Museum of Moving Image and Parsons Institute for Information Mapping in research projects for the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency.
Manuel is a leading voice on information visualization and has spoken in numerous conferences, schools and festivals around the world, including TED, Lift, OFFF, Eyeo, Ars Electronica, IxDA Interaction, Royal College of Art, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid. He has also been featured in various magazines and newspapers, such as Wired, New York Times, Science, BusinessWeek, Creative Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Grafik magazine, SEED, Étapes, and El País. His latest book Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information has been translated into French, Chinese, and Japanese.
