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Interview with Stephan Thiel, Steffen Fiedler, and Jonas Loh

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    Project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://mace-project.eu/maeve/.

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    Project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.emoto2012.org/.

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    Blog site, URL, December 28, 2013: http://blog.emoto2012.org/.

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    Project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.nand.io/research/the-known-unknowns.

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    Project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.nand.io/infosthetics/the-gestalt-of-digital-identity.

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    Project homepage, URL, January 4, 2014: http://www.nand.io/visualisation/understanding-shakespeare.

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    See Spool JM (2012) Exploring the problem space through prototyping. User Interface Engineering. URL: http://www.uie.com/articles/four_phases_prototyping/.

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    See Armitage T (2009) Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like. Berg. URL: http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/10/23/toiling-in-the-data-mines-what-data-exploration-feels-like/.

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    Which refers to the process of sketching physically using really cheap but versatile materials.

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    See Csikszentmihalyi M (1997) Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. Harper Perennial, New York, p.79.

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    See Nussbaum B (2011) Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? Fast Company. URL: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663558/design-thinking-is-a-failed-experiment-so-whats-next.

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    See the process videos for Understanding Shakespeare for instance or how we try to document the creation process for projects in general: project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.understanding-shakespeare.com/process.html.

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    Klein J (2010) What is Artistic Research? Gegenworte 23, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Available online, URL, December 28, 2013:

    http://www.julianklein.de/texte/2010-artistic_research-JKlein.pdf.

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    And hereby we refer also to finished design products or services, they are just tools in our constant approach to data and understanding.

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    See Slavin K (2011) How Algorithms Shape Our World. TED talk. URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html.

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    Boyd D, Crawford K (2011) Six Provocations for Big Data. Oxford Internet Institute Decade in Internet Time Symposium. Available online, URL, December 28, 2013: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1926431.

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    Project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.nand.io/research/krebs-faraday-collaboration.

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    Project homepage, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.nand.io/research/cruiser-charisma.

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    Project homepage, URL, March 11, 2014: http://www.nand.io/awareness/amae-apparatus.

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    See Kuang C (2009) The Irresistible Appeal of Info Porn (words of Aaron Koblin). Print Magazine. URL: http://www.printmag.com/article/the-irresistible-appeal-of-info-porn/.

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    Fisher M (2013) A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries. Washington Post. URL:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/.

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    See the most prominent example: Fisher M (2013) The cartography of bullshit. Africa Is A Country. URL: http://africasacountry.com/the-cartography-of-bullshit.

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    Where communities of programmers collectively develop software of a quality that outperforms commercial.

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    Wopperer W (2000) Open Source Movements as a Model for Organizing. In Proceedings of ECIS’2000 (Paper 99).

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    See Wopperer W (2013) Making, Sharing, Caring—Schöne neue Autonomie oder Dritte Industrielle Revolution? Slides available online, URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.slideshare.net/wowo101/making-sharing-caring-tu-dresden.

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    URL, December 28, 2013: http://www.changeby.us.

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    URL, December 28, 2013: https://openpaths.cc.

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    URLs, December 28, 2013: http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/botanicus-interacticus-interactive-plant-technology (Disney Research) ; http://www.ivanpoupyrev.com

    (Ivan Poupyrev).

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Thiel, S., Fiedler, S., Loh, J. (2015). Multidisciplinary Design in the Age of Data. In: Bihanic, D. (eds) New Challenges for Data Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6596-5_19

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