Eric Rodenbeck

Eric Rodenbeck is the Founding Partner at Stamen, an award-winning design and technology studio, a Senior Affiliate at MetaLab, and a Lecturer in Advanced Studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Under Eric’s leadership for more than twenty years, Stamen’s work has helped define the dynamic world of online mapping and data visualization. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Vice, Scientific American, and many other publications. The Dalai Lama trusted him to map what science knows about human emotions, the Getty trusted him to help tell the world about Ed Ruscha’s hundreds of thousands of automatic photographs of Los Angeles, Facebook trusted him to tell stories about human mobility during COVID, and the Audubon society trusted him to map North American bird ranges under different climate change scenarios. Radically interdisciplinary and collaborative, his work has been featured in galleries and museums around the world, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian. An amateur geometer, ink maker, fermenter and knot tyer, he has taught workshops in each of these areas and relishes the interplay between the digital and the physical, the controlled and the wild.