Jonas Parnow works on the visualisation of climate change scenarios as a research associate at the Urban Complexity Lab. He co-runs the interface and information design Studio Karat and works as a freelancer in Berlin.
Introduction
I’m interested in transforming data and information into visual structures. I have a critical and open understanding of what visualisation and interfaces are and reflect on their impact and meaning for our society. Other topics of interests include post-digital media, privacy, intersectional feminism, and environmental issues.
I prefer to work for organisations, foundations, universities, journalists, and activists with open source licenses. I also give talks and teach at universities. In Berlin, I co-organise the DataVis Meetup.
I feel comfortable with common front-end, some back-end programming languages and a good range of graphic applications. Most of my visualisations emerge from the combination of diverse tools ranging from data collection and analysis to custom visualisation.
My private life is naturally influenced by my work and vice versa. Therefore, I am interested in all kinds of design, culture and technology, especially how we can use these tools to create a diverse, equal and fair world.
Even though I had been working for some clients as a photographer I’m no longer taking photographs professionally. Nowadays, photography implies a break and recreation for me. Seeing the beauty of diversity, capturing moments that I shared with people or turning the camera down to hear the stories of the people surrounding me is all part of this journey.
Links
As my work and the projects I work on cover different diciplines and topics I like to keep them in seperate places:
- visualising.systems
My recent data visualisation and information design works - away.photos
A collection of my favourite photography projects - karat.studio
The interface and information studio I co-run - datavis.berlin
A collection of data visualisation links I build for the data vis Meetup - zeto.io
Some online tools I build over the last years
Vita
Jonas Parnow is a designer for information and data. After his media design Bachelor of Arts from the RFH Cologne in 2012 he started at the infographic agency Infographics Group. Besides that, he finished his design Master of Arts at the FH Potsdam. Since 2017, he works as a part-time research associate at the Urban Complexity Lab in the EU-funded Senses research project on the visualisation of climate change scenarios. He is also working at the interface and information design Studio Karat that he co-founded. Besides, he teaches data journalism at the TU Dortmund and worked for Zeit Online. He also co-organises the data visualisation meetup in Berlin.
Jonas Parnow identifies as white, cis-male from Germany. Pronouns are he/him.
Lebenslauf
Jonas Parnow ist Designer für Informationen und Daten. Nach dem Mediendesign Bachelor an der RFH Köln hat er 2012 bei der Infografik-Agentur Infographics Group angefangen. Parallel zu seiner Arbeit dort hat er 2015 an der FH Potsdam einen Master in Interface Design abgeschlossen. Seit 2017 arbeitet er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Urban Complexity Lab und beschäftigt sich dort im EU-weiten Senses Forschungsprojekt mit der Visualisierung von Klimawandel-Szenarien. Schon während seiner Arbeit in der Agentur hat er Studio Karat gegründet – ein Interface- und Informationsdesign-Studio. Nebenbei unterrichtet er Datenjournalismus an der TU Dortmund und arbeitete für Zeit Online. Er co-organisiert außerdem das Daten Visualisierung Meetup in Berlin.
Jonas Parnow identifiziert sich als weißer, Cis-Mann aus Deutschland. Pronomen ist er.