Seeing through Data: Visiting the Museum with the Eyes of an Information Designer
<p>Last December I’ve had the pleasure to teach a 6 hour-workshop at the Department of Education at the Museum of Modern Art, a class called “<a href="https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/classes/drawdata" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Draw your Visit with Data</a>”, where we explored what using data — small and subjective data — as an observational tool and as a creative material could bring to, for example, the way we experience an exhibition.</p>
<p>The workshop<em> </em>was part of my ongoing research on what I call <a href="https://medium.com/@giorgialupi/data-humanism-the-revolution-will-be-visualized-31486a30dbfb#.f7yau5y2j" rel="noopener">Data Humanism</a>: an approach to the data world through which, I argue, we are ready to question the impersonality of a merely technical approach to data, and to reconnect numbers to what they really stand for: our lives.</p>
<p>Specifically,<strong> it is an opportunity to investigate how we can find and use data in contexts you wouldn’t expect — as a second pair of eyes:</strong> to learn how to see more and better, and to explore how small and subjective data can be an observational tool and a creative material we could bring to, for example, the way we experience an exhibition.</p>
<p>During the one-day workshop, we focused on a<a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1624" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> specific exhibition</a> with works exclusively from the 1960s, “<em>a decade in which interdisciplinary artistic experimentation flourished, traditional mediums were transformed, and sociopolitical upheaval occurred across the globe</em>.” <strong>In the very nature of the exhibition, there is purposely no narrative that links the artworks other than chronology. Thus participants needed to find their own story, using data as the guiding material to build their own personal, unique experience</strong>.</p>
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