Nowcasting: Design Theory & the Digital Humanities

Peter Lunenfeld
Design & Media Arts
UC Los Angeles

Nowcasting is the first conference to apply contemporary design theory to emerging issues in the digital humanities, showcasing digital humanities projects at every level from Google mapping to supercomputing visualization. The Nowcasting Seminar proposes that learning from communication design, interaction design, and industrial design will be vital to 21st century humanistic inquiry.