The Information Landscapes project, developed by Cooper with her students and colleagues at MIT’s Visual Language Workshop in Cambridge, MA, explored what, at the time, were radical possibilities for graphic design in the digital realm. The VLW, which Cooper founded in 1974, was one of the most fertile creative environments in interactive design and data visualization, then a growing field. The project comprised a graphical interface for creating dynamic 3D visualizations of complex real-time financial, statistical, and spatial information, among other types of data—marking a significant departure from pie charts and other traditional methods of data depiction.

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The Information Landscapes project, developed by Cooper with her students and colleagues at MIT’s Visual Language Workshop, explored what at the time were radical possibilities for digital graphic design. The VLW, which Cooper founded in 1974, was one of the most fertile creative environments in the growing field of interactive design and data visualization. The project was a significant departure from the pie charts and other traditional methods of data depiction that were being used at the time: a graphical interface for creating dynamic 3D visualizations of complex real-time financial, statistical, and spatial information.

Medium Multimedia video and software with audio
Credit Gift of Lisa Strausfeld and David Small
Object number 1078.2015
Department Architecture & Design

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