Cathryn Ploehn

I am a designer and professor at the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin. I design ineractions and data to cultivate ecological and collective livability.

My research practice, Feral Data Visualization, demands an embrace of place-based, situated, embodied, and vegetized forms of visual pattern making that de-estrange us from ecological and social community.

My work has been featured in venues like the Museum of Human Achievement, IEEE Vis Arts Program, Eyeo Festival, On Data and Design, Nightingale Magazine, and the Information is Beautiful Awards. I hold a Master of Design for Interactions from Carnegie Mellon University.

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