Miguel Cardoso is a partner of Bestiario, responsible for its project development department. Graduated on Communication Design and studying for a phD on Computer music he is interested on researching in the fields of data visualization, design, programming and computer music.
Bestiario is a small Barcelona/Lisbon-based company founded three years ago, dedicated to data visualization (dynamic representation) and to the creation of spaces for the collective creation of knowledge. Bestiarios slogan is: making the complex comprehensible. They combine art and science to design and create interactive information spaces, having developed a powerful framework based on graph theory, topological algorithms, physical models, and geometrical and geographical representations to provide the optimum solutions to their (our) customers (BThe Berkman Center for Internet and society at Harvard, Telefonica, Residencia de Estudiantes, Ross Institute, Ministerio de Educacion de Espa, Diputacion de Barcelona, UOC, DDB, Havas Media, Yahoo! Research, among others)
Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, he teaches at the Faculty of Design in the Communication Design Degree. He contributed to several Master Courses at Politecnico di Milano, Bocconi University, Domus Academy, Universidad de Malaga, and to Company Masters at FIAT Group, Richemont Group, Finmeccanica.
He is member of the board and coordinator of the Communication Design Research Line at the PhD in Design - Politecnico di Milano. Responsible of the Communication Design Research Unit within the Design Department, his research and publishing activities focus on the development of data, information and knowledge visualization tools and methods to a) support decision making processes in complex systems b) foster information and knowledge sharing dynamics in creative processes.
Since 2000 he’s the Faculty of Design representative in the European educational program “MEDes” (Master in European Design), founded in partnership with six of the most important design schools in Europe. In year 2000 he became responsible of the DesignNet project (Tools and Methods for Information and Knowledge Management in Design Processes) and Scientific Coordinator of POLIteca, the Design Knowledge Centre of the Politecnico di Milano.
http://dbpedia.org
Georgi Kobilarov is a semantic web researcher working on Linked Data technologies. He's co-founder and original developer of DBpedia and long-term contributor to the W3C Linking Open Data project. After graduating from Free University of Berlin with a diploma in business administration, he worked in the semantic web research groups at HP Labs Bristol and FU Berlin. His research interests include web-scale data integration and user interaction design for graph data. Georgi runs linked data R&D company Uberblic Labs, helping media organizations such as the BBC to deploy semantic web technologies in the day-to-day business.
www.infosthetics.com
Andrew Vande Moere is a Senior Lecturer at the Design Lab in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, and the program coordinator of the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts, at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include data visualization, interaction design, media architecture and physical computing. Andrew is also the sole author of the "information aesthetics" weblog, a website collecting representations of information that are both engaging and insightful.
In 2003 Norbert Palz founded the architectural firm targadesign with Robert Banovic, that focused on the production of architectural services for international artists. From 2005-2006 targadesign was producing the organic shape modeling and manufacturing for the Project “Grotto” by Thomas Demand. The layered life-size cardboard model of a cave was exhibited in the summer of 2007 at Fondazione Prada in Venice. The scope of works ranged from e.g. geometric studies for the 2007 BMW Art car, auditorium design and digital fabrication data for the Serpentine Pavillion 2007 designed by Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta.
Between 2004 and 2006 Norbert Palz was a teacher at the Department ”Grundlagen des Entwerfens " at the Technical University in Kaiserslautern.
Since May 2007 Norbert Palz has been working on a PHD at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Center of Information Technology and Architecture on digital design and additive fabrication for the creation of heterogeneous materials.
Norbert Palz has participated at the Architecture Biennale Peking 2008 (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture’ curated by Neil Leach. Norbert Palz has conducted a series of international workshops and lectured widely.