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Jun
22
Data Visualization and the Human Side of Data
WWW
June 22, 2021
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4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Virtual
Talks
Giorgia Lupi encourages creatives (and non!) to harness data as a design tool, while respecting human privacy and experience in their output.

Today, data is everywhere. But what does data really mean, and how can we extract real value from it in our daily lives? In this illustrated talk, information designer and Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi discusses our new data reality and “data humanism,” her unique philosophy for understanding and working with data.

Surveying her diverse work over the last decade, Lupi introduces her distinctive approach to data visualization by looking at the human side of data, and offers a look into the far-reaching applications of her work in data and design, from corporate to institutional, to personal.

Biography

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Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and a Partner at Pentagram in New York. After receiving her master’s degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York. She is co-author of Dear Data and of the new interactive book Observe, Collect, Draw - A Visual Journal. Giorgia is also a public speaker, her TED TALK on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has been named One of "Fast Company's" 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, when she also joined MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and recently became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where in 2017 she also was commissioned to create an original site-specific piece, and of the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Portrait: © Vito Maria Grattacaso / LUZ

Background: © Pentagram for "Plastic Air"

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Today, data is everywhere. But what does data really mean, and how can we extract real value from it in our daily lives? In this illustrated talk, information designer and Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi discusses our new data reality and “data humanism,” her unique philosophy for understanding and working with data.

Surveying her diverse work over the last decade, Lupi introduces her distinctive approach to data visualization by looking at the human side of data, and offers a look into the far-reaching applications of her work in data and design, from corporate to institutional, to personal.

Biography

giorgia lupi.png

Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and a Partner at Pentagram in New York. After receiving her master’s degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York. She is co-author of Dear Data and of the new interactive book Observe, Collect, Draw - A Visual Journal. Giorgia is also a public speaker, her TED TALK on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has been named One of "Fast Company's" 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, when she also joined MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and recently became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where in 2017 she also was commissioned to create an original site-specific piece, and of the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Portrait: © Vito Maria Grattacaso / LUZ

Background: © Pentagram for "Plastic Air"

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Jun
22
WWW
Data Visualization and the Human Side of Data
June 22, 2021
/
4:00 pm
-
5:00 pm
Virtual
Talks
Giorgia Lupi encourages creatives (and non!) to harness data as a design tool, while respecting human privacy and experience in their output.

Today, data is everywhere. But what does data really mean, and how can we extract real value from it in our daily lives? In this illustrated talk, information designer and Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi discusses our new data reality and “data humanism,” her unique philosophy for understanding and working with data.

Surveying her diverse work over the last decade, Lupi introduces her distinctive approach to data visualization by looking at the human side of data, and offers a look into the far-reaching applications of her work in data and design, from corporate to institutional, to personal.

Biography

giorgia lupi.png

Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and a Partner at Pentagram in New York. After receiving her master’s degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York. She is co-author of Dear Data and of the new interactive book Observe, Collect, Draw - A Visual Journal. Giorgia is also a public speaker, her TED TALK on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has been named One of "Fast Company's" 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, when she also joined MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and recently became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where in 2017 she also was commissioned to create an original site-specific piece, and of the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Portrait: © Vito Maria Grattacaso / LUZ

Background: © Pentagram for "Plastic Air"

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