scholarly journals Dr. Rune Pettersson

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 59-61
Author(s):  
Stephania Padovani
Keyword(s):  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Information Design ◽  
International Institute ◽  
International Division ◽  
Art Design

Rune Pettersson, Ph.D., is Professor de Design de Informao no Departamento de Inovao, Design e Desenvolvimento de Produto na Universidade de Mlarden, Eskilstuna, Sweden. Ele ainda presidente da Art Design, Faculdade de Cincia e Tecnologi. Dr Pettersson foi Vice Presidente do Instituto Internacional de Design de Informao (International Institute for Information Design), IIID. Tambm foi Vice President da International Visual Literacy Association, IVLA, seis vezes e presidente durante o perodo de 2000-2001. Tambm foi conselheiro internacional para o International Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Publicou 206 teses e 65 livros. [ Download ]

An interview with Rune Pettersson

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
Lennart Strand
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Information Design ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
International Institute ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
The Usa ◽  
University Department ◽  
College Of Business

In May 1999 Rune Pettersson, Ph.D, was appointedProfessor of Information Design at Mälardalen University in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Before that he worked in publishing, in R&D, in technical training and in university teaching and research. He has published 218 papers and 75 books. Among his books is Information Design: An Introduction (John Benjamins, 2002). Rune Pettersson has been active in several international organisations, such as Vice President of the International Visual Literacy Association, IVLA (six times), and President during 2000–2001; and Vice President of the International Institute for Information Design, IIID, 2000–2006. He has also been an International Advisor for the International Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, as well as a board member in several other organisations. For nine years (1987–1996) Rune Pettersson was an Affiliate Research Professor of the Institute of Business Graphics at the College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University in the USA. For five years (2000–2004) he was an Adjunct Professor at Appalachian State University, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, in the USA.

Information Architecture and the Comic Arts

2016 ◽  
pp. 569-588
Author(s):  
Lesley S. J. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Information Behaviors ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Structuring Knowledge ◽  
Combine Information

Information architecture is the structural design of shared information environments, optimizing users' interaction with that content and their context. Comic arts may be considered in light of information architecture in that it uses sequential frames, text, and their “containers,” and design conventions as information architectural “tools” to represent information and engage the user in interacting with it. This chapter explains information architecture, focusing on comic arts' features for representing and structuring knowledge. Then it details information design theory and information behaviors relative to this format, also noting visual literacy. Next, applications of comic arts in education are listed. With this background, several research methods that combine information design and comic arts are explained, followed by a concrete research example. It also recommends strategies for addressing information architecture explicitly for knowledge acquisition and communication.

Information Architecture and the Comic Arts

2015 ◽  
pp. 252-271
Author(s):  
Lesley S. J. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Information Behaviors ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Structuring Knowledge ◽  
Combine Information

Information architecture is the structural design of shared information environments, optimizing users' interaction with that content and their context. Comic arts may be considered in light of information architecture in that it uses sequential frames, text, and their “containers,” and design conventions as information architectural “tools” to represent information and engage the user in interacting with it. This chapter explains information architecture, focusing on comic arts' features for representing and structuring knowledge. Then it details information design theory and information behaviors relative to this format, also noting visual literacy. Next, applications of comic arts in education are listed. With this background, several research methods that combine information design and comic arts are explained, followed by a concrete research example. It also recommends strategies for addressing information architecture explicitly for knowledge acquisition and communication.

Introduction

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-49
Author(s):  
Peter Simlinger
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Information Design ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Challenge

After four symposiums in Voralberg (in co-operation with Fachhochschul Vorarlberg) and one in Pittsburgh (in cooperation with Carnegie-Mellon University), Vision Plus 6 took place in Vienna in July 1999. In October 1999 Vision Plus 7 'Design for communities/diversification of minds – conversation in process' had been staged at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Vision Plus 8' Turning information into corporate knowledge/innovative information management: a design challenge' got fixed for July 2000, again in Vienna under the patronage of UNESCO (in cooperation with 'Fachhochschul-Studiengaenge der Wiener Wirtschaft' and 'Werbe Akademie WIFI Wien'). The topic of Vision Plus 6, 'Drawing the process: visual planning and explaining' focused on the visualisation of processes and how visual means can transform complex data into comprehensible information. Three subthemes had been chosen: - Drawings with a purpose: seeing and understanding ; - Process visualisation and visual planning; - Information + Creation -> Sensation The Vision Plus symposiums are organised by IIID, the International Institute for Information Design. IIID is indebted to the editors of the Information Design Journal for their close co-operation in having decided to publish a selected number of papers and summaries. These papers and summaries in IDJ 10 (1) that are based on presentations at the Vision Plus 6 conference nicely complement the 'Proceedings, Abstracts, Bibliography' of Vision Plus 6, which can be obtained from the IIID web site. It is the long term aim of Vision Plus symposia to prepare the grounds for a semi-virtual Information Design University. Representatives of more than twenty renowned universities and research institutes from around the world have already declared themselves ready to contribute actively to its development. IDJ readers interested in IIID activities in general and Vision Plus symposia in particular are invited to write to [email protected] or to visit www.iiid.net for further information.

University of East Africa Conference on Public Policy: III. Problems of Foreign Aid

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-584
Author(s):  
Kenneth Christofas
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Vice President ◽  
International Institute ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Government ◽  
Overseas Development Institute

The chairman of the conference, who presided at the opening session, was Rashidi Kawawa, Second Vice-President ofthe United Republic of Tanzania. The conference was fortunate to have an East African Minister as discussion leader at each of its plenary sessions; and it was particularly valuable that the three Tanzania Ministers of State, A. Z. N. Swai, A. H. Jamal, and A. M. Babu, were able to devote so much time to participating in the work of the conference. Each of the three East African countries sent a strong team of Ministers, Members of Parliament, and civil servants; particularly notable contributions were made by J. G. Kiano, Minister for Commerce and Cooperatives in the Government of Kenya, and C. Obwangor, Minister for Justice for Uganda. The three wings of the University of East Africa were formidably represented; and there were observers from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris), the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of East Africa, the U.S.A.I.D., and the Ford Foundation, without whose financial generosity the conference could not have taken place. Finally, there was a selection of ‘specialists’ from overseas: Nicholas Kaldor from Cambridge, William Clark from the Overseas Development Institute in London, Vladimir Martynov from the Institute of World Economy and International Affairs in Moscow, George Skorov from the International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris, M. R. Shroff, Deputy Economic Adviser to the Government of India, whose contribution was generally regarded as quite outstanding, and myself, a sort of governmental wolf in academic sheep's clothing.

scholarly journals The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98
Author(s):  
Omer Bin Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Language And Education ◽  
The University

The Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists(AMSS) has acquired a certain niche for itself in the academic life of Muslimsin North America. Each year the Conference is attended by Muslim andseveral non-Muslim scholars from across North America and overseas.The 18th Annual Conference was held in conjunction with the 15th AnnualConference of the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE).This provided an opportunity for exchange of ideas among specialists fromvarious disciplines. It was coordinated by the AMSS Vice President Dr.Salahuddin Malik. In all, some forty papers on Islam and Muslims werepresented followed by interesting discussions.Dr. Taha J. Al- 'Alwani, President of the International Institute of IslamicThought (IIIT) was the keynote speaker at the Banquet. The Isma'il and Lamya'al Fariiqi Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr. Ralph Braibanti of DukeUniversity. One highlight of the Conference was the well-attended InterfaithTrialogue which was addressed by Dr. James Evans of Colgate Divinity School,Dr. Tamara Sann of St. John Fisher College, Rabbi Judea Miller of Rochester,NY, and Dr. Jamal Badawi of Halifax University, Nova Scotia, Canada.The Conference, which was spread over twelve sessions, included eighteenpanels on a variety of subjects.The First Session comprised two panels: Business and Economics inIslam where Dr. Ausaf Ali reflected on the "Systemized Theory of the IslamicEconomy." Dr. M. E. Biraima's paper, which was presented in his absence,discussed "A Qur'anic Model For a Universal Economic Theory." Dr. HishamAhmad of the University of Chicago spoke about the "Qur'anic Perspectiveon the Creation and Distribution of Wealth and Economic Justice," whileMohamed R. Bouz.akuk of the University of Oklahoma spoke on "lbn Khaldun:The Economist."The parallel panel on Language and Education featured Dr. M. A. WaheedFakhri of Chicago State University who introduced the 1989 survey of fulltimeIslamic Schools in North America. Dr. Ni'mat H. Barazangi of Cornellspoke on "North American Parents and Children: Theoretical Model forIslamization of Education," and Dr. Kamal Nimer of the Islamic Saudi Academyfocused on adult education ...

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