Scholar
Dietmar Offenhuber
Google Scholar ID: SwhfpjsAAAAJ
Professor & Department Chair, Northeastern University
Citations & Impact
Citations
940
H-index
15
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Author of 'Autographic Design: the Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World' (MIT Press) and the award-winning monograph 'Waste is Information – Infrastructure Legibility and Governance' (MIT Press). Advised the United Nations and published books on digital public space, accountability technologies, and urban informatics. Received the Outstanding Dissertation Award 2014 from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, Best Paper Award 2012 from the Journal of the American Planning Association, and the ASCINA young PI award. Exhibited internationally in venues including Centre Pompidou, Sundance, and Hong Kong International Film Festival. Awards include first prize in the NSF Visualization Challenge, Jury Award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Art Directors Club Silver Award, and more.
Research Experience
- Worked as Key Researcher at the Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and Ars Electronica Futurelab, and professor in the Interface Culture program at the Art University Linz, Austria. Currently a visiting scholar at Harvard Metalab and was recently a fellow and visiting professor at the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities.
Education
- PhD in Urban Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master of Science from MIT Media Lab; Dipl. Ing. in Architecture from Technical University Vienna.
Background
- Currently a Professor and Chair of the Art + Design department at Northeastern University, with a secondary appointment in the school of Public Policy. Research interests include environmental information and evidence construction as a socio-material design process.
Miscellany
- In artistic practice, often collaborates with composers Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl under the name stadtmusik.
