Otto Neurath and the Politics of Orchestration
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In 1923, with a series of charts displaying the increased urban production of housing, produce, and dairy goods, the life-long endeavor of the philosopher and economist Otto Neurath (1886-1945) in finding a concise visual language of picture statistics began. Exhibited at the “Allotment Garden, Settlement, and Housing Exhibition” (Kleingarten- Siedlungs- und Wohnbauaustellung) which drew almost half a million spectators into Vienna’s City Hall, the statistical charts suggested that settlements (...)