Design and Science

This compelling new volume addresses the inter-relationship, in both historical and contemporary contexts, between design and scientific research and practice.

Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design at Eastern Michigan University, USA. She has authored and edited several books, including Encountering Things (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Prasad Boradkar, and Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design (2011). She is the editor, with Teal Triggs, of The Graphic Design Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Introduction, Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University, USA) Part One: Visual Metaphor, Conceptualization, and Modeling Ideas in Design and Science 1. Matters of Mathematics: Designerly Practices in Geometry, K Lee Chichester (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) 2. Agile Artifacts-Designing the Incomplete, Jan Eckert (Swiss Center for Design and Health, Switzerland) and Daniel Eckert (BioNTech, Germany) 3. Diagramming ArtScience: Designing at Knowledge Intersections, Clarissa Ai Ling Lee (University of Malaya) and Matt Cornell (Independent Choreographer and Artist) 4. Phenomenal Machines: An Interview with Nicole Koltick, Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University, USA) Part Two: Biomimicry and Biodesign 5. Design Inspired by Nature: The Bat Brolly, Clint Penick (Kennesaw State University, USA) and Prasad Boradkar (Google and Arizona State University, USA) 6. Purifungi, A Natural Aid Kit for the Earth, Audrey Speyer (PuriFungi, Belgium) 7. Vital Matters: Growing Living Materials, Victoria Geaney (University of the Arts London, UK) 8. Follow Your Nose, Miriam Simun (Independent Artist) and Sharon Lin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Part Three: Makers and Users in Design and Science 9. URBN STEAMlab and Biophilic Environments: Science, Art, and Design, Diana Nicholas and Shivanthi Anandan (Drexel University, USA) 10. Designing a Scientific Instrument: Lessons from the Crookes Radiometer, Lina Hakim (Kingston University, UK) 11. From the Laboratory to the Studio: Microorganisms in Art and Design, Nurit Bar-Shai (Independent Artist and Designer, Israel) and Christine Marizzi (BioBus, USA) 12. Making Justice with Biodesign: A Pedagogical Approach, Deepa Butoliya (University of Michigan, USA) Part 4: Data Manifestation in Design and Science 13. Data Manifestation: Climate Change Data in the Home and on the Body, Karin von Ompteda (Ontario College of Art and Design University, Canada) 14. Visual Thinking and the Art of Medical Diagnosis, Michael Chandler (MD, New York, USA) 15. The Scientist's Social Network: Reimagining Crystallographic Diagrams Ahead of the 1951 Festival Pattern Group Collaboration, Emily Candela (Royal College of Art, UK) 16. Cinematic Data Visualization, Catherine Griffiths (University of Michigan, USA)