autographic design
Autographic design is a design theory that makes data collection more legible and accountable. It involves a set of techniques concerned with revealing the material origins of data by revealing physical traces and other self-inscribing phenomena.
Lead:
Dietmar Offenhuber
publications:
Offenhuber, Dietmar. 2023. Autographic Design: The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World. The MIT Press.
Offenhuber, Dietmar. 2019. “Data by Proxy — Material Traces as Autographic Visualizations.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 26 (1): 98–108. https://doi.org/10/gf649f.