Visual Discovery
Conference
MIAMI 2024
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI • April 15-19

VISUAL DISCOVERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

The Visual Discovery Conference 2024 (VDC 2024) is a student-center conference focused on the city of Miami, Florida, its multicultural landscape, its demographics, and the challenges it faces due to economic inequality and climate change.

VDC 2024 will be hosted by the University of Miami (UM) on April 15-19, 2024. It will take place at UM’s beautiful Newman Alumni Center. VDC 2024 is sponsored by UM’s School of Communication and the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC).

WHAT IS VISUAL DISCOVERY

Founded in 2018 as an effort to provide students with an opportunity for experiential learning to gain real-world skills, the Visual Discovery Conference involves some of the world’s most renowned journalism and design schools participating in a weeklong student-centered experience. Hosted annually by one of the involved universities, VDC also offers participants a fascinating insight into various cultural environments and the campus life of international design universities.

In workshops on various topics, international teams work on infographics and data visualizations for several days and discuss and present them to each other at an event on the final day. Accompanied by keynotes and talks by teachers, an exhibition, a design competition and networking days, the event offers a variety of opportunities for intercultural exchange and professional discussions.

THEMES

Students participating in the Visual Discovery Conference 2024 will be organized in multinational teams that will design infographics and data visualizations around the following topics:

  • Hurricanes and their increasing impact on South Florida.
  • Climate change and its impacts, such as extreme heat and sea-level rise.
  • South Florida environmental landscape: from corals to the Everglades.
THEMES
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SCHEDULE

VDC 2024 will take place on April 15-19, 2024.

Click here for Detailed Schedule.

STUDENT COMPETITION

In addition to the workshop and projects, participating students are invited to submit their previous infographics work of their choice to a competition. After students send their projects as digital files, which will be printed at the University of Miami as posters. These posters will be showcased in the Newman Alumni Center during the conference. At the end of VDC during an award ceremony, the winners will be announced by a jury.

INSTRUCTIONS

 

IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE

If you are part of an higher-ed institution that teaches information graphics and data visualization and want to attend VDC 2024 with your students, contact the conference organizer, Prof. Alberto Cairo ([email protected]). Attendance at VDC 2024 is free.

 

STAYING IN MIAMI

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WHERE TO EAT

WHERE TO EAT

The University of Miami will provide breakfast every day of VDC 2024. Lunch and dinner are on your own. Here’s a list of restaurants that are at walking distance from UM’s campus and the Newman Alumni Center.

PLACES TO EAT

VDC 2024 Partner Institutions