(EN) A growing number of creatives want to design for a better world. This exhibition explores the definition of Social Design showcasing social designers who are paving the way. I wish my teleport was not broken… —— (IT) Un numero crescente di creativi vorrebbe lavorare per migliorare il mondo. La mostra che si tiene fino a fine marzo a S.Franscisco esplora il concetto di Social Design, esibendo alcuni lavori di designers sociali che stanno esplorando questa strada. Vorrei che il mio teletrasporto non si fosse rotto…
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What can be expected / Cosa aspettarsi
(EN) From Subversive Fair taking place next May 14-17 in Linz (Austria), you can see it in the pie chart above. —————— (IT) Dalla Fiera Sovversiva che si terrà il prossimo maggio (dal 14 al 17) a Linz in Austria lo potete vedere dal grafico a torta qui sopra.
Infoporn
(EN) The art of information design and data visualization became an exhibition in Chicago last month for the seventh edition of Select Media Festival. Unfortunately works are not visible online but were featured at the experimental cultural center, the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and other venues across the city. You can explore some of the artists websites through the links in this page or download Lumpen Magazine with some nice infographics, their contribution to the event. —————– (IT) L’arte del design dell’informazione e della visualizzazione di dati è stata protagonista di una mostra a Chicago all’interno della settima edizione del Select Media Festival, il mese scorso. Purtroppo il lavori non sono visibili online ma erano esposti al centro culturale sperimentale Co-Prosperity Sphere, e altri luoghi sparsi in città. Puoi però esplorare i siti degli artisti attraverso i link in questa pagina e scaricare Lumpen Magazine che contiene il loro contributo all’evento.
Visualizing the city/ Nuovi modi di visualizzare la città
(EN) Database City is the title of the workshop held in Madrid last month. It was the second edition of a bigger project called Visualizar an open and participartory research project around theory, tools and strategies of information visualization: “VISUALIZAR 2008 is focused on the city context. Urban environments, which are becoming increasingly dense, complex and diverse, are one of contemporary society’s largest “databases”, daily generating volumes of information that require new methods of analysis and understanding” Inside the workshop, seven proposal have been developed. My favourites are these two: In the air is about making visible the invisible, visualizing gases, particles, pollen, diseases, and other different agents of Madrid’s polluted air. The result is a ghost city surrounded by a multicolored fog changing its shape and hue according to the information feed. Unfortunately the visualization is not online but on display at Medialab-Prado in Madrid through January 11th. City Murmur is about visualizing the urban space through the eyes
read more Visualizing the city/ Nuovi modi di visualizzare la città
Adventures in motion/ Avventure in movimento
(EN) If I were in London and it was free I’d go here. ——— (IT) Se fossi a Londra e fosse gratis andrei qui.
ZOESCOPE 