Giorgia Lupi, Kaki King at the Design Indaba Conference 2017

Information Design/2017/33 min/Reel № 17.001

ByGiorgia Lupi, Kaki King

Can we use our own data to become better human beings?

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Giorgia Lupi takes information design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in USA in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Giorgia's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Data designer Giorgia Lupi talks us through her experience of painstakingly collected personal data.

Giorgia Lupi. Image by Caterina ClericiKaki King. Photo by Shervin Lainez

About the speaker

Giorgia Lupi

New York/USA

Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer, artist and the co-author of "Dear Data", a book that visualises the details of everyday life.

Kaki King

New York/USA

American guitarist and composer Kaki King is known for her genre-defying percussive and jazz-like melodies and energetic live shows.