In 2021 I made a series of diagrams for a book called Critical Visualization by Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila. It was published at the end of 2022 and the contributor copies recently arrived.
As the title suggests, this work takes an in depth look at how data is presented and how the viewer of visualizations can understand and accommodate for the inevitably biased systems that produce the data and its representations. It is filled with case studies of existing data visualizations as well as detailed commentary on their significance in relation to the books themes. I made 4 diagrams which appear throughout the book. These diagrams were meant to augment the authors ideas and were commissioned specifically for this work. It was a stimulating creative challenge and a fun opportunity to share my obsession with diagrams with Peter and Patricio as we worked through these images together.


The Diagrams
What is an Assemblage?

What is Actor Network Theory?

What is Situated Knowledge?

What does it mean to Decolonise Knowledge?

Process Photos: "What is an Assemblage?"





