Professor Aubrey Pohl

Overview

Summary:

Aubrey is a designer, researcher, artist, visual communicator, and lover of images. Their practice institutes a multitude of experimental processes as well as traditional ones. Above all, both as a designer and a human, Aubrey engages in social awareness and activism in design, looking to learn from the processes of architecture and trading the construction of physical spaces for metaphysical ones.

Research interests:

• Data Abstraction/Visualization
• Archiving
• Alternative Methods for Design
• Accessible Methods for Design
• Digital Fabrication
• Experimental methods of printmaking
• Creative Programming as Language and Form
• Place/Space Building
• Tool building

My research has may facets and tendrils, but all instances focus on methods of data abstraction, or the intentional, goal-oriented use of data to inform and abstract instances of design and visual communication.

Methods of my research focus on abstract forms of data visualization and information design, engaging in the process from start to finish; research and data collection, data organization, data application, creative output informed by data, so on and so forth.

Additionally, there is a significant focus on alternative methods for design, new tools and media, digital fabrication, space making, tool building, and community engagement in which my research in to data abstraction, among other points of interest, are applied and/or executed.

My research and practice is often intertwined with a pursuit of sharing knowledge, resources, and means of production with all members of my community, local or otherwise.