Dietmar Offenhuber is a designer and urban planner in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University in Boston. He was educated as an architect in Vienna, Austria before receiving his MS and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His research focuses on the relationship between data and design in the social context. Dietmar is the author of the award-winning monograph “Waste is Information” (MIT Press) and has published books on urban data and accountability technologies. His new book “Autographic Design – the Matter of Data in a Self-inscribing World” examines material visualization practices and the production of evidence.