(EN) There is not only one Italy, but many Italies affected by poverty in different ways. Density Design is surely contributing to the construction of representation and visualization models for a multidimensional interpretation of poverty and social exclusion starting from data by The National Institute of Statistics. In their gallery some infographics are good, some other a bit too cryptic to be understandable by all . Nevertheless the idea of revealing information hidden within statistical records (Neurath docet) helps democratic and free access to knowledge and information that is the first step to improve living standards. ————— (IT) Non c’è un’Italia unica, ma tante Italie che subiscono la povertà in modo diverso. Density Design sta contribuendo con successo a costruire dei modelli di rappresentazione e visualizzazione per dare un’interpretazione multidimensionale della povertà e dell’esclusione sociale della penisola a partire dai dati Istat . Esplorando la loro gallery, alcune infografiche sono azzeccate, altre mi sembrano ancora un po’ troppo criptiche per
Month: November 2008
Mario’s evolution / L’evoluzione di Mario
Mobile phones mean social change/ L’uso sociale del cellulare
[EN] The social implications of the mobile revolution are well know to the people of MobileActive. A precious resource if you want to be a mobile activist. —————- [IT] Le conseguenze sociali della rivoluzione dei cellulari è raccontata in questo video creato da MobileActive che unisce attivisti, specialisti, tecnici e volontari per scovare i modi possibili per mettere i cellulari al servizio dell’attivazione sociale.
Geotagging gets hot/Il geotagging è un trip!
[EN] Soweto (short for South Western Townships), the urban area in the City of Johannesburg, is at the center of a new campaign of the social network The Grid. They created the world’s first geo-tagged documentary for mobile phones: Mobikasi. Users can explore youth culture in a 25-minute documentary split into 25 inserts of one minute each covering a different topic that is relevant to the people in Soweto and is geo-tagged to the location where it was shot. Members of the social network can virtually “travel” through a mobile streetmap of the township and stop off at various locations to enjoy the one-minute video clips, featuring street fashion, music producers, hair braiders and popular hangouts. The visuals remind me Rize by Lachapelle. ———– [IT] Soweto (sta per South Western Townships), l’area urbana di Johannesburg in Sud Africa è al centro della nuova campagna del social network The Grid. Hanno infatti creato il primo documentario geotaggato per cellulari dal titolo
Pinky Show and the creation of value / Pinky Show e la creazione del valore
(EN) The Pinky Show is a lo-tech hand-drawn educational TV show focusing on topics excluded from mainstream discussion and embraced by a bunch of cats. The video I embedded in this post is about museums and how objects in them become valuable… Radically cute! ————– (IT)The Pinky Show è una serie di video educational disegnati a mano, con protagonisti dei gatti che affrontano argomenti spesso esclusi dalla discussione mainstream. Il video che ho inserito in questo post si occupa dei musei e di come gli oggetti in essi contenuti acquistino valore… Radically cute!
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