Visualizing Information Creates New Ways of Learning

Edwin Schlossberg

Edwin Schlossberg is founder and principal designer of ESI Design. He is an internationally recognized designer of collaborative public experiences, knowledge-sharing networks, and communications platforms for a variety of companies and institutions. Schlossberg’s designs include everything from children’s museums, multi-player games and science exhibits, to innovative retail experiences, multi-story interactive signs, and participatory expo pavilions. His recent projects include the award-winning Dream Cube for the Shanghai corporate community at the 2010 World Expo, the National Immigration Museum at Ellis Island, Tryon Palace, Reuters Sign in Times Square, GE Social Space at TED, Mercy Corps’ Action Center, INFINITY at NASA Stennis Space Center, Best Buy Co. and many others. He is the author of eleven books and numerous articles, including Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century.

Mark Wigley

Mark Wigley is dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is one of the foremost architectural theorists and critics of his generation and has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture. In 2005, Wigley co-founded Volume Magazine together with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman. As a guest curator, he made widely attended exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.