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Giorgia Lupi reposted thisGiorgia Lupi reposted thisSome snapshots of Capacity's new data visualization system, built alongside a new visual identity and brand strategy by our team at Pentagram, led by Giorgia Lupi. inspired by art deco motifs, seating charts, and vintage ticket layouts to evoke Capacity's marketing expertise in the arts and culture space. love how this system turned out! case study: https://lnkd.in/eaiDY3A2 team: Giorgia Lupi Rachel Crawford Ed R. Zach Scheinfeld Julia Saimo Ruby P. #datavisualization #datavizsystem #datavizdesign
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Giorgia Lupi reposted thisGiorgia Lupi reposted thisTension. Release. Anticipation. Resolution. The same dynamics that move us in a work of art are embedded in Capacity’s new brand identity. Pentagram Partner Giorgia Lupi explains how every element—from tagline to color scheme—captures a passion for arts and culture. 🎙️ Listen to the full conversation on Arts Unscripted with Monica Holt (formerly CI to Eye) → https://bit.ly/4w5JPV1
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Giorgia Lupi reposted thisGiorgia Lupi reposted thisCreating a successful, data-driven brand inspired by and designed for arts and culture requires a rare level of talent and passion for our field. That's what Giorgia Lupi and her team from Pentagram delivered. This partnership was a delight for the Capacity team, and the depth of Pentagram's care and understanding for our field is evident in this spectacular work. Visuals inspired by Art Deco, vintage marketing materials, and seating charts support our brand's essence and purpose: Promoting Collective Joy. Explore the brand in Pentagram's case study: https://lnkd.in/eBm3qMRY
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Giorgia Lupi shared thisWe LOVED working with the incredible people at Capacity ! They are an exceptional team of passionate digital marketing experts for the arts and culture, with my team at Pentagram we have designed a new identity and data visualization system. https://lnkd.in/dNwQgTxE As technology evolves, Capacity’s offering has expanded. The new identity signals a shift from its roots as an upstart “digital-first” agency to an established, industry-leading partner. A more sophisticated logo, visual, and typographic system elevates communications, while a dynamic suite of patterns, motion, and color reinforces a commitment to the joy audiences experience. Visual nods to seating charts, original promotional materials, and Art Deco typography connect a contemporary offering to a legacy of arts and culture that is both hardworking and distinctive. Alongside the identity, we worked with the Capacity team on a strategic repositioning, voice and tone, and a new tagline: “Promoting Collective Joy”. For the data visualization system, we began by analyzing existing datasets and reports, categorizing common use cases and core data needs; and then created a data philosophy with principles tailored to these use cases, and extended the brand identity to data visualization through a cohesive framework. After refining the brand and data visualization systems, we also developed a series of bespoke generative web applications to support implementation. A pattern generator enables easy iteration across proprietary pattern types, while a chart generator allows Capacity’s team to quickly build custom charts from preset options using their own text and data. Check the full case study! Project team: Rachel Crawford Zach Scheinfeld Ed R. Julia Saimo Meagan Hughes Ruby P. Giorgia Roscini
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Giorgia Lupi shared thisGrazie mille!!! 🙏Giorgia Lupi shared thisSeguo il lavoro di Giorgia Lupi da anni. Come ingegnere, come appassionato di design e come docente di Basi di Dati all'Università di Padova, il suo approccio mi ha sempre colpito in modo particolare. Quando con Ivano Masiero e matteo bertin abbiamo lavorato all'idea di Kitto e dello "spedire umanità", il suo lavoro Dear Data è stato per me un faro. La sua proposta si chiama Data Humanism: i dati non sono numeri freddi su un foglio Excel, sono tracce di persone reali. Di scelte, emozioni, relazioni. Quante volte a lezione parlo di tabelle, query, strutture, e quante volte racconto agli studenti che dietro ogni riga c'è qualcuno? Come dice lei stessa: "I dati sono un linguaggio. Sono un vocabolario che chiunque può usare e che chiunque può comprendere." Sono andato a vedere la sua prima mostra personale in Italia, L'umanesimo dei dati, alle Gallerie d'Italia di Vicenza. E ho avuto la fortuna di ascoltarla presentare il suo lavoro di persona: l'ho trovata generosa, genuina, brillante, e mi ha emozionato per davvero. Mi sono fatto autografare Dear Data con una dedica per i mei studenti, dato che è un libro che spesso finisce in aula. 🗓️ La mostra è aperta fino al 2 agosto. Se siete da quelle parti, non perdetela.
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Giorgia Lupi shared thisGiorgia Lupi shared thisToday’s a meaningful one for me and for us. We’re introducing our new brand: Capacity (formerly Capacity Interactive), created in partnership with Pentagram, led by Giorgia Lupi. This has been a long time coming. Over the years, our work has evolved. The company has evolved. And at a certain point, it became clear that the way we were showing up no longer fully reflected that. So we took a step back and did the work to get really clear on who we are now and how we want to show up in the world. We kept coming back to one idea: Promoting Collective Joy It felt true to our clients and to the role we try to play alongside them. Check it out > https://lnkd.in/eEziVU5d We’re also starting a new chapter for the podcast. CI to Eye is now Arts Unscripted with Monica Holt, A Capacity Podcast. The first episode is with Giorgia Lupi, where she shares more about her approach to design and the thinking behind the rebrand. Listen here > https://lnkd.in/eKgCXJNU I’m grateful to our team and partners who put a huge amount of thought and care into this. Excited to keep building from here.
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Giorgia Lupi shared thisalways so happy to see how Dear Data has taken a life of its own!Giorgia Lupi shared thisI just completed an elective course, "Data to Narratives: The Art of Storytelling in Ecology," for first-year students at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, inspired by the SCCS workshop I took last year with Sambita Modak, PhD. The idea was to provide them with a perspective on where and how data exists (including us as data subjects), and on how we make sense of the environment in data and bring out the stories. The course included a lake walk (and using applications that allow field data collection), a trip to the Archives at NCBS, and the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Research Collections. I was truly inspired by "Dear Data" by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, a must-read for designers interested in data visualization. The book inspired my first assignment for students, in which they created data portraits on postcards. The course culminated in an assignment where students collected data and put together a story. They were encouraged to look at data visualizations beyond the usual graphs and bars. A big thanks to Sambita Modak, PhD, Pritha Dey, and the team at NCBS Archives for facilitating this. Image 1: Decoding ecology, data, and story as prompts in class Image 2: Data portraits on postcards Image 3-5: NCBS Archives, Research Collections and class interactions Last 4 images: Data visualization by students (Mess food wastage, birds and human disturbance, sound map, and observations on trees) Had 20 students for this course, while it's difficult to put all their names...you know who you are :) (Photos used with consent)
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Giorgia Lupi reposted thisGiorgia Lupi reposted thisAmidst the wild pace of AI, I'm reaching for peace, comfort, and inspiration in: - Chart Art: by Nadieh Bremer - Speak Data: by Giorgia Lupi - Ten Good Design Principles - Beauty: recommended by Katie Dill That's not to say that I'm not embracing AI. I'm definitely on the sauce. But books like these offer sustenance. There's something deeply satisfying about experiencing beauty and/or seeing (visually) other perspectives of a dataset or story shaped by these talented people. #spoiled #art #design #data
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Giorgia Lupi shared thisI am so so honored!!!Giorgia Lupi shared thisMeet this year’s #Curious100 — a celebration of one hundred courageous leaders and creative minds across the US who are harnessing the transformative power of curiosity to address today’s most pressing problems. See the full list: https://lnkd.in/eEHkJedh
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisGiorgia Lupi reacted on thisOff to Paris to present how design can help clarify (not simplify) complexity.
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisGiorgia Lupi reacted on thisSome snapshots of Capacity's new data visualization system, built alongside a new visual identity and brand strategy by our team at Pentagram, led by Giorgia Lupi. inspired by art deco motifs, seating charts, and vintage ticket layouts to evoke Capacity's marketing expertise in the arts and culture space. love how this system turned out! case study: https://lnkd.in/eaiDY3A2 team: Giorgia Lupi Rachel Crawford Ed R. Zach Scheinfeld Julia Saimo Ruby P. #datavisualization #datavizsystem #datavizdesign
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisA dream to see how the Pentagram branding project evolved with Giorgia Lupi! Congrats to all involved, and grateful to Jess B. and Stephanie Medina for helping transform all the platforms and spaces where this project now appears! 😍Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisCreating a successful, data-driven brand inspired by and designed for arts and culture requires a rare level of talent and passion for our field. That's what Giorgia Lupi and her team from Pentagram delivered. This partnership was a delight for the Capacity team, and the depth of Pentagram's care and understanding for our field is evident in this spectacular work. Visuals inspired by Art Deco, vintage marketing materials, and seating charts support our brand's essence and purpose: Promoting Collective Joy. Explore the brand in Pentagram's case study: https://lnkd.in/eBm3qMRY
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisGiorgia Lupi reacted on thisI am very excited to announce that I have recently graduated from University of Michigan with a dual degree in Art & Design and Computer Science. In the next week, I will be starting a summer internship at Pentagram, working in Giorgia Lupi's team. In the Fall, I will be attending Yale School of Art to begin a Masters of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisGiorgia Lupi reacted on thisExcited to share a project led by Giorgia Lupi and her team: the rebrand of Capacity, a leading arts and culture marketing agency in North America. The new identity reflects Capacity’s evolution, combining contemporary design with references to Art Deco and historic cultural graphics, all centered around "promoting collective joy" idea. I contributed as motion graphic designer, developing animations and motion principles that bring the visual system to life across digital platforms enhancing storytelling, clarity, and emotional impact. For these animations, I worked combining Cavalry and AfterEffects Have a look at the complete case study here ( https://lnkd.in/dVVegfRV )
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisGiorgia Lupi reacted on thisThis June, Giorgia Lupi will join us in the studio. On the evening of June 17th, she will be a special guest at the Advanced Infographic Design Intensive, a 9-day course I'm teaching at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York on infographic design as a visual journalism practice. Giorgia's work has shaped how many of us think about data: not as abstract numbers, but as something deeply human, shaped by people, choices, and points of view. That perspective is at the core of this course. Having Giorgia in the room is, simply, a privilege. Spots are limited. Full program and registration at https://lnkd.in/dC7nByxF Pentagram Giorgia Lupi
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Giorgia Lupi reacted on thisWe LOVED working with the incredible people at Capacity ! They are an exceptional team of passionate digital marketing experts for the arts and culture, with my team at Pentagram we have designed a new identity and data visualization system. https://lnkd.in/dNwQgTxE As technology evolves, Capacity’s offering has expanded. The new identity signals a shift from its roots as an upstart “digital-first” agency to an established, industry-leading partner. A more sophisticated logo, visual, and typographic system elevates communications, while a dynamic suite of patterns, motion, and color reinforces a commitment to the joy audiences experience. Visual nods to seating charts, original promotional materials, and Art Deco typography connect a contemporary offering to a legacy of arts and culture that is both hardworking and distinctive. Alongside the identity, we worked with the Capacity team on a strategic repositioning, voice and tone, and a new tagline: “Promoting Collective Joy”. For the data visualization system, we began by analyzing existing datasets and reports, categorizing common use cases and core data needs; and then created a data philosophy with principles tailored to these use cases, and extended the brand identity to data visualization through a cohesive framework. After refining the brand and data visualization systems, we also developed a series of bespoke generative web applications to support implementation. A pattern generator enables easy iteration across proprietary pattern types, while a chart generator allows Capacity’s team to quickly build custom charts from preset options using their own text and data. Check the full case study! Project team: Rachel Crawford Zach Scheinfeld Ed R. Julia Saimo Meagan Hughes Ruby P. Giorgia Roscini
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Politecnico di Milano
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Researching at Density Design Lab and focusing on information design, she obtained her PhD Cum Meritum in 2014 with a thesis titled “Visualizing the User Generated cities – Exploring the potentiality of emergent geo-social media applications as a novel source of urban knowledge”.
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Observe, Collect, Draw!
Princeton Architectural Press
A guided journal with a fresh approach to the trend of journal-as-tool-for-self-examination. The journal is delightfully illustrated in the authors' trademark style— accessible, whimsical, detailed. Blending inspiring examples with engaging instruction, this journal asks: What do we learn about ourselves when we measure our gratitude, confidence, and distraction levels? What do our collections say about who we are: our books, music, the clothes we wear? Observe, Collect, Draw! functions as a…
A guided journal with a fresh approach to the trend of journal-as-tool-for-self-examination. The journal is delightfully illustrated in the authors' trademark style— accessible, whimsical, detailed. Blending inspiring examples with engaging instruction, this journal asks: What do we learn about ourselves when we measure our gratitude, confidence, and distraction levels? What do our collections say about who we are: our books, music, the clothes we wear? Observe, Collect, Draw! functions as a mini-course in information design, as accessible to beginners as it is engaging to seasoned info designers.
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Dear Data
Princeton Architectural Press, Penguin Random House
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail…
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.
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New Challenges for Data Design
Springer
The present work provides a platform for leading data designers whose vision and creativity help us to anticipate major changes occurring in the data design field, and pre-empt the future. Each of them strives to provide new answers to the question, “What challenges await data design?” To avoid falling into too narrow a mind-set, each works hard to elucidate the breadth of data design today and to demonstrate its widespread application across a variety of business sectors. With end users in…
The present work provides a platform for leading data designers whose vision and creativity help us to anticipate major changes occurring in the data design field, and pre-empt the future. Each of them strives to provide new answers to the question, “What challenges await data design?” To avoid falling into too narrow a mind-set, each works hard to elucidate the breadth of data design today and to demonstrate its widespread application across a variety of business sectors. With end users in mind, designer-contributors bring to light the myriad of purposes for which the field was originally intended, forging the bond even further between data design and the aims and intentions of those who contribute to it. The first seven parts of the book outline the scope of data design, and presents a line-up of “viewpoints” that highlight this discipline’s main topics, and offers an in-depth look into practices boasting both foresight and imagination. The eighth and final part features a series of interviews with data designers and artists whose methods embody originality and marked singularity.
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Visualizing the Data City: Social Media as a Source of Knowledge for Urban Planning and Management
Springer
This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis, and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning, and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present a set of experiments conducted in collaboration with urban stakeholders at various levels (including citizens, city administrators, urban planners, local industries, and NGOs) in Milan and New York…
This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis, and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning, and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present a set of experiments conducted in collaboration with urban stakeholders at various levels (including citizens, city administrators, urban planners, local industries, and NGOs) in Milan and New York in 2012. It is examined whether geo-tagged and user-generated content can be of value in the creation of meaningful, real-time indicators of urban quality, as it is perceived and communicated by the citizens. The meanings that people attach to places are also explored to discover what such an urban semantic layer looks like and how it unfolds over time. As a conclusion, recommendations are proposed for the exploitation of user-generated content in order to answer hitherto unsolved urban questions. Readers will find in this book a fascinating exploration of techniques for mining the social web that can be applied to procure user-generated content as a means of investigating urban dynamics.
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For designers, researchers, and changemakers interested in systemic transitions, this book list offers foundational insights. This list is created by Transition Design Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 1. The Tao of Liberation, Mark Hathaway and Leonardo Boff https://lnkd.in/eBdisuAY 2. Designs for the Pluriverse, Arturo Escobar https://lnkd.in/eME7um4Q 3. The World We Made, Jonathon Porritt https://lnkd.in/euMGqDhu 4. The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand https://lnkd.in/eGRDxBf6 5. The History Manifesto, Jo Guldi and David Armitage https://lnkd.in/ec6mvnp9 6. Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, Julia Watson https://lnkd.in/eyGCcDxV
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Serena Cangiano
Thoughts no one asked for + announcement. Enrico Bassi is a new collaborator at SUPSI FabLab - Digital Fabrication Laboratory and Design Institute and will help us pushing alternative innovation models and perspectives in applied research and hands-on educational experiences at Master of Arts in Interaction Design. A couple of weeks ago I was sharing with him my daily struggles. Me: "Enrico Bassi, we spent the last 15-plus years advocating for openness, open-source alternatives, local community empowerment, open data, citizen sensing, making, and bottom-up approaches, and we sounded like a bunch of hippies. In these days, finally everyone is paying attention to all these topics and advocating for local open technology solutions to face AI nightmares. Why?" Enrico: "Because AI is generating fear. Replacing Adobe with open tools for designing enclosures for our little sensing devices or robots was not a real problem, or at least not a widely shared one." Me: "You are so right. Unfortunately we all have a problem now, and open-source-enabled digital autonomy is the solution. Sono felice che ci siamo portati avanti (I am happy we worked ahead)." With Enrico we are working on open and urban manufacturing, on co-design methods, templates for fair and effective onboarding and use of LLM in bottom-up innovation, open healthcare. More about him ...is not on Linkedin, but you can have a look. https://lnkd.in/dkbYFVc5
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lorenzo brusci
Umberto Eco’s seminal work, *Opera Aperta* ("The Open Work"), marks a critical intersection between radical artistic experimentation and scientific-informational frameworks. At its core, Eco explores how artistic openness and informational complexity shape contemporary modes of meaning-making. By positioning artistic works as inherently "open"—available to infinite interpretations and continuously evolving meanings—Eco connects the theories of information and entropy with the expressive potential of art. Central to Eco’s thesis is the notion of noise or error, traditionally perceived negatively within communication theory but here reframed as a generative source of meaning and innovation. This transformation highlights the progressive value of ambiguity, suggesting that uncertainty and informational excess within artworks catalyze creativity, individualization, and continuous reinterpretation. In this perspective, errors and disruptions are not merely obstacles to understanding but vital stimuli that expand cognitive and interpretative capacities. Today, Eco’s insights resonate profoundly amid the exponential proliferation of sources and the paradoxical decline in historical and intertemporal consciousness. Contemporary society experiences unprecedented informational (Ai-)availability coupled with diminished collective capacity to critically engage with historical references and cross-cultural memory. Eco’s open work paradigm thus provides crucial theoretical grounding for navigating this tension, emphasizing active, participatory interpretation as fundamental to both cultural vitality and individual agency. Building on previous reflections on the role of mistake in science and art—particularly music—the critical stake is the logical and symbolic expansion of human diversity. Without this diversity, ecological contraction risks devolving into nonsensical global conflicts for resources, defined exclusively by narrowly construed human values. The metaphor of the artwork, as articulated by Eco, becomes a powerful sociological and socioeconomic paradigm, where diversity enables an unlimited proliferation of meanings and lifestyles. Eco’s "Opera Aperta" emerges not only as an artistic or informational theory but fundamentally as a work on semantic ecology or informational ecology. It provides an essential lesson for contemporary society: true sustainability and cultural resilience hinge on embracing and fostering diversity—symbolic, logical, and cultural—as the foundation of meaningful and adaptive human existence. #UmbertoEco #OperaAperta #OpenWork #InformationTheory #ArtAndScience #ErrorAsInnovation #NoiseAndCreativity #ExperimentalMusic #SemanticEcology #CulturalDiversity #SymbolicSystems #EpistemicRobustness #SustainableCreativity #InnovationEcosystems #FutureOfMeaning
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José Manuel dos Santos
Leadership isn’t about control, it’s about care. In a great essay for MassArt Design Innovation, Peilan Liang writes: “We need your presence, not just your plans.” Her piece is a gentle call for a new model of design leadership, one grounded in listening, co-creation, and trust. For anyone starting out and navigating complex, fast-moving teams, this one’s worth reading. https://lnkd.in/eKMMHnPh #DesignLeadership #MassArtMDES #PsychologicalSafety #LeadWithCare #HumanFirstLeadershi
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Dr. Martin Lorenz
"‘Tangled Paths’ tells the remarkable life story of Aby Warburg, one of the 20th century’s most influential art and cultural historians. Warburg founded the renowned Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Warburg Library) and created the groundbreaking Mnemosyne Atlas (1924–1929). This enigmatic project was a visual assembly of nearly a thousand images (ranging from classical art to newspaper clippings, astrological charts, and advertisements) arranged on large black panels. Through the Atlas, Warburg sought to reveal how images, symbols, and motifs travel, transform, and acquire new meanings across time and cultures." A contribution by our Societal Design Master at Elisava teacher Richard Niessen cc/ Emily Harris, FCA Elisava School of Design and Engineering
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University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design
New York-based artist Ani Liu creates provocative artifacts at the intersection of art, science and technology. Trained as an architect, the Weitzman faculty member is profiled by American Masters on PBS for a practice that challenges understandings of bodies and gender. "In my own practice, design isn't just problem solving, but it's problem making," says Liu. "Everyone wants to make the world a better place...but what is better"? https://lnkd.in/eH5rmKS2
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Elif Çiftçioğlu
"As cultural and creative organisations, museums also rely on collaboration for innovation. Camarero and Garrido (2012) found that collaboration with other museums in joint leisure and cultural activities is a necessary condition for visitor-oriented museums to generate technological innovation. Furthermore, Li and Ghirardi (2019) pointed out that the contribution of collaboration to museum innovation differs depending on the type of innovation, and that different collaborative arrangements also have different impacts on the innovation outcomes in museums. " "Collaboration can be defined as the mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve the problem together, wherein collaborators share some common objectives in the clear division of labour." https://lnkd.in/dmBV5bWC By Chuan Li
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BIP Red
Moving from human-centered to humanity-centered design is more than a semantic shift. It signals a broader awareness that every experience we design exists within larger social, technological and environmental systems that can no longer be overlooked. A thoughtful reflection from Alessandro Di Benedetto, Executive Design Director at BIP Red on where design is truly heading.
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