Technology applications, including data visualization, and research methodologies to evaluate and enhance practice, education, organizational, and service delivery effectiveness and outcomes

The Information Visualization Design project is an eight year long, interdisciplinary research effort in expanding the creative boundaries of Architectural Practice. 

As our civilization continues to dive deeper into the information age, making sense of complex data becomes critical.  Information visualization responds to this challenge by using architectural expertise to solve information interpretation problems facing many fields. The result is the design, construction, testing, and deployment of data environments supporting real time decision making in Medical, Finance, Process Control, Live Performance, and Network Monitoring.  These information spaces take advantage of the vast and innate human perceptual abilities in pattern finding. Rigorous scientific testing has demonstrated that ‘dwelling’ in such data architectures allows people to make more accurate, faster, and better decisions while reducing cognitive load and stress.

This work also demonstrates the natural leadership role that architecture may play in interdisciplinary endeavors.  Using core architectural competencies, two architecture faculty became the leaders of a collaborative assembly of five inter-disciplinary teams with over 25 individuals.

The success of this research has been proven by its longevity, over $4.7M in grants, over 50 articles published across four fields, several pending patents, a spin-off company, three commercial licenses, and over 20 live public performances. In recognition of their cutting edge work Julio Bermudez and Jim Agutter have been awarded the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 2004-2005 Creative Achievement Award.  Such accomplishments challenge conventional views of architectural practice and provide students, faculty and practitioners exciting opportunities to create digital information spaces

Innovation interests are inclusive of most Ultracybernetic and Neocybernetic tech industries. The Base promises foundational heuristics into development of non-gerontomorphotic tech fields, enabling some Porous stabilization methods to be utilised vis-a-vis derivation qualitative analyses in such research-available modes of applications.

A  visual constellation in the style of Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. It can be seen as a continuation of Aby Warburg's famous texts on North American Indians and snake rituals. The plate is based on the visual examples discussed in a seminar on Warburg's cross cultural comparative method with my student at the International Master's programme in Visual Culture at the Division of Art History, Lund University, Sweden. The plate was in the end used as a pedagogical tool to teach students the splendour and pitfalls of art historical/visual reflection and cross cultural comparative analysis.