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Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles and Katherine Gillieson
[Information Design Journal 23:1] 2017
► pp. 19–31

Visualization as assemblage

Exploring critical visualization practice

| OCAD University , Canada | Zero Lab

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is an example of critical visualization practice that interrogates both its own conditions of production and how who is represented is also affected by the representations. In order to describe and analyze this form of practice the notion of assemblage as well as tools from actor-network theory are employed. These concepts allow the researcher or designer to consider how visualizations operate beyond its existence as a discrete representation but rather as a process that weaves a network of humans and non-humans together which is especially relevant to a critical engagement in information visualization practice.

Keywords: information visualization, mapping, assemblage theory, social advocacy, critical practice, actor-network theory
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Published online: 20 July 2017
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