COVIC: Collecting Visualizations of COVID-19 to Outline a Space of Possibilities

Paul Kahn is a lecturer in the Information Design and Data Visualization program at Northeastern University. He currently leads the COVIC project. He has previously been active in hypertext research and design agencies in the US and France offering services in information architecture, interface design, and experience design. Currently, he lectures and writes about information design history.

Hugh Dubberly manages a software, service, and systems design firm in San Francisco. He teaches systems design in the Interaction Design Program (MDes) at California College of Art, and design theory in the Information Design and Data Visualization Program (MFA) at Northeastern University, where he is Professor of Practice. Previously, he was Vice President of Design at Netscape and managed Creative Services and brand at Apple.

Dario Rodighiero works at the intersection of knowledge design, critical data studies, and digital humanities. He is an assistant professor of Sciences and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, serving the multidisciplinary faculty Campus Fryslân. He is affiliated at Harvard University with metaLAB and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. With Metis Press, in 2021 he authored Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization—a book about charting scientific communities from a design-driven, ethical perspective.