Giorgia Lupi: How we can find ourselves in data
喬姬雅‧露琵: 在數據中找到自己
Giorgia Lupi sees beauty in data. She challenges the impersonality that data communicate, designing engaging visual narratives that re-connect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas. Full bio
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for every waking hour ...
avoided the worries and anxieties.
than from this other one,
probably more familiar with
on your phone right now.
of your sleep --
to make information accessible
and their true potential,
have to forget about them
just a tool we use to represent reality.
as a placeholder for something else,
this personally.
to be interested in politics,
Silvio Berlusconi,
叫做貝魯斯柯尼,
for the moderate right.
for the Democratic Party.
that Berlusconi could get elected --
貝魯斯柯尼選不上,
he knew nobody who voted for him.
鎮上不會有人投給他。
a completely distorted image of reality.
pretty limited and skewed,
I thought, I lived in a bubble,
to see outside of it.
outcome for the presidential election.
enough information this time,
the closed circle we lived in --
同溫層以外的世界。
the data failed us this time --
to two simple percentage numbers
inevitable red and blue map,
that there were stories --
behind these numbers.
to my team by this woman.
提出了一個特殊的挑戰。
one of the most humane stories possible.
就是一個最有人情味的故事。
薩曼莎‧克里斯托福雷蒂。
Italian woman astronaut,
to the International Space Station.
with the data of my mission
International Space Station
of live streams from its sensors.
we could think of --
before the election --
of all these numbers?
in data for the sake of it,
in a teeny box
with your naked eye on a clear night.
用肉眼看見她。
to create a connection
looking at her from below.
what we called "Friends in Space,"
「太空中的朋友」,
lets you say "hello" to Samantha
who are online at the same time
全球網友們說「哈囉」。
left visible marks on the map
waving back every day at us
from a very different perspective.
去看任務的數據。
about our human nature and our curiosity,
引發我們的好奇心,
were the drive.
of its thousands of users
means designing ways
and the uncountable
felt and directly reconnected
重新連結的方法,
and the technology around them
to the stories they represent.
連結數據與背後的故事。
the passion and obsession about data.
跟我一樣對數據癡迷。
a very radical experiment,
whatsoever to share our data.
the old-fashioned post office.
to get to know each other --
shared mundane topics,
to the sounds of our surroundings.
that we would then manually hand draw
send from London to New York,
where she lives.
is the data drawing,
of the other person, of course,
to interpret our drawing.
a pretty cold and impersonal topic.
check the time in a week?
that I checked the time,
and different hours chronologically --
about these moments.
indicate why I was checking the time --
or just casually glance at the clock?
還是隨意瞄一下?
of my days and my personality
to discover and reveal, for example,
我仍對遲到這件事非常焦慮,
collecting our data manually
that computers cannot gather --
and the words we use,
we said and were received,
mostly people that I don't know.
to waitresses and waiters,
the people who are close to me.
and counting these types of actions
in tune with ourselves,
and our surroundings.
connected at a very deep level
we put ourselves in these numbers,
of our very personal stories to them.
to make them truly meaningful
to start drawing your personal data,
will never give us a solution.
the right amount of context
and intricate reality.
could be reduced
only through models and algorithms
at the center of their view of the world.
needs to happen
treated like a God --
for our present and our future.
that I shared with you today
representative of our human nature
mislead us anymore,
to include empathy, imperfection
analyze and display them.
處裡、分析、呈現。
only to become more efficient,
to become more humane.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Giorgia Lupi - Information designerGiorgia Lupi sees beauty in data. She challenges the impersonality that data communicate, designing engaging visual narratives that re-connect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas.
Why you should listen
What sets Giorgia Lupi apart is her humanistic approach to the world of data.
Her work frequently crosses the divide between digital, print and handcrafted representations of information: primarily, she draws with data. She has a passion for and obsession with data, the material she uses to tell stories, and the lens through which she sees the world.
Data are often considered to be very impersonal, boring and clinical, but Lupi's work proves the opposite. She makes sense of data with a curious mind and a heterogeneous arsenal, which ranges from digital technology to exhausting and repetitive manual labor. She believes we will ultimately unlock the full potential of data only when we embrace their nature, and make them part of our lives, which will inevitably make data more human in the process.
Trained as an architect, Lupi has always been driven by opposing forces: analysis and intuition, logic and beauty, numbers and images. True to these dichotomies, in 2011 she started both her own company and studying for a PhD. She earned her ddoctorate in design at Politecnico di Milano, where she focused on information mapping, and she is now the design director and co-founder of Accurat, a global, data-driven research, design and innovation firm with offices in Milan and New York. She relocated from Italy to New York City, where she now lives.
Thanks to her work and research, Giorgia is a prominent voice in the world of data. She has spoken at numerous events, universities and institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, PopTech Conference, Eyeo Festival, Fast Company Innovation by Design, New York University, Columbia University and the New York Public Library. She has been featured in major international outlets such as the New York Times, The Guardian, the Washington Post, NPR, BBC, TIME magazine, National Geographic, Scientific American, Popular Science, Wired, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Monocle and more. Her work has been exhibited at the Design Museum, the Science Museum, and Somerset House in London; the New York Hall of Science and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York; at the Triennale Design Museum and the Design Week in Milan, among others.
With her company, Accurat, she has worked with major international clients including IBM, Google, Microsoft, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, the Louis Vuitton-Moet-Hennessy Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Unicredit Group and KPMG Advisory.
Giorgia is the co-author of Dear Data, an aspirational hand-drawn data visualization book that explores the more slippery details of daily life through data, revealing the patterns that inform our decisions and affect our relationships.
Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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