I risultati del Referendum per la separazione in due Comuni di Venezia e Mestre del 1 Dicembre 2019 si prestano a interpretazioni opposte. C’è chi mette l’accento sulla vittoria del sì, che ha raccolto il 66% dei voti totali, cifra che sale all’83% nella Città Antica e all’86% nell’Estuario. C’è…

Per i non-veneziani: l’1 Dicembre 2019 qui a Venezia si vota nel referendum (consultivo) sulla separazione di Venezia dall’attuale Comune unico che la vede accorpata a Mestre dal 1926. All’epoca Venezia contava 200.000 abitanti, contro i 20.000 di Mestre [1]. Di lavoro comunico i dati, aiuto gli altri a raccontare…

Un breve racconto, dati alla mano, per chi ha bisogno di sentirsi ancora speranzoso. Venezia è sì assediata da un mare verde (Verde Lega), ma la realtà è ben più frammentata, con i partiti di Centro Sinistra e le Sinistre che tengono duro nelle sezioni elettorali più centrali. E soprattutto con un potenziale politico non espresso dalla votazione. La Lega ha accentrato il 37%…

While working on Batjo, we surveyed dozens and dozens of data physicalizations. This post is the second of a series where I present an interdisciplinary selection of data objects and/or artistic installations, by focusing on projects that have potential applications/inspiration for journalism. READ PART 1 HERE “Social data objects” As introduced in the first post of this…

While working on Batjo, we surveyed dozens and dozens of data physicalization. In this post, I present an interdisciplinary selection of them, by focusing on projects that have potential applications/inspiration for journalism. Physical data representations as social objects In her book “The Participatory Museum”, Nina Simon discusses the concept of “social objects”. According to the author …

A digital fabrication cookbook for journalists Announcing the launch of the first digital fabrication cookbook specifically targeted at newsrooms professional. Learn how to make physical data installations to present news stories for your community.

A brief report looking at use of dataviz in 2017–2018 award-winning data journalism Looking at award-winning data journalism: what charts are journalists using? What data patterns are the most visualized? With the project Batjo: Bits, Atoms and Journalism we want to assist newsrooms in producing physical data installations and provide them with a few templates and workflows that can be adapted to produce…

How can technology help newsrooms in their community engagement efforts and, at the same time, do so by offering alternatives to current methods of community-building that depend on mobile phones and social media? This what we set out to investigate and imagine with the project Batjo: Bits, Atoms and Journalism. …

What would journalism be like if it could be experienced physically, using multiple senses? What if you could add a material third dimension to journalistic stories? Thanks to a generous funding from Google’s Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund, the project “Batjo: Bits, Atoms and Journalism” will kickstart its prototyping phase. During the upcoming year, I will be working closely with Italian industrial designer and digital fabrication expert Chi ha ucciso il Conte?. We will investigate how data journalists can borrow tools and techniques from the maker movement and develop a toolkit to facilitate and automate the building of data driven physical news installations.