Dario Rodighiero

Dario Rodighiero

Dario Rodighiero is a designer working at the intersection of digital humanities, information design, and science communication. His practice turns open-access archives into visual form, opening them to interpretation and understanding. Two strands organize the work. The first is the mapping of science, developed through organizational charts in Mapping Affinities and extended to artificial intelligence in Grounding AI Map. The second engages cultural heritage, with projects such as Surprise Machines and the Map of the Analogous City. Across both strands, knowledge design operates as a research methodology: a way of seeing, and a means of experimenting with how inquiry takes form.

At the University of Groningen, he is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the interdisciplinary faculty Campus Fryslân. There he coordinates the minor Data Wise: Data Science in Society and teaches data and visual literacy in the Bachelor’s program Data Science and Society. He maintains active collaborations with Harvard University as a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a principal at metaLAB (at) Harvard/Berlin/Basel, a research and teaching center dedicated to experimenting with digital technologies in the arts and humanities. He is co-chair of VISAP, the IEEE VIS Arts Program, for the 2025 and 2026 editions, in Vienna and Boston.

Dario holds a PhD from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he attended the doctoral program in Architecture and Sciences of the City. He held research and teaching positions at MIT, the European Commission, Paris-Sorbonne University, and Sciences Po — including the médialab, where his engagement with digital platforms as tools for philosophical inquiry took shape — and was visiting professor at FU Berlin and Paris Nanterre University. Dario lectured at venues such as CERN and Ars Electronica, and exhibited his work at MAXXI and the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting a sustained commitment to public engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Data Storytelling: A Visual Historiography of Winter Olympic Games — Forthcoming
Forthcoming · Book Chapter
Pictologic

Data Storytelling: A Visual Historiography of Winter Olympic Games

with Kim Albrecht, Giacomo Nanni, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Sabina Rosenbergova
Archives, Museums, and Installations: Aldo Rossi’s Legacy in Digital Transition — 2026
· Journal Article
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture

Archives, Museums, and Installations: Aldo Rossi’s Legacy in Digital Transition

with Carla Zhara Buda and Angela Parente
Combining Complex Data with Creativity: Interview JTS Scholar Dario Rodighiero — 2026
· Interview
Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI, University of Groningen

Combining Complex Data with Creativity: Interview JTS Scholar Dario Rodighiero

interview by Jelle Posthuma
Four Guiding Principles for Rethinking Organizational Charts — 2026
· Book Chapter
Handbook of Digital and Computational Research Methods

Four Guiding Principles for Rethinking Organizational Charts

edited by Anders Koed Madsen and Anders Kristian Munk
Grounding AI: Exploring the Role of Algorithms in Science — 2026
· Map
University of Groningen Press

Grounding AI: Exploring the Role of Algorithms in Science

with Matilde Ficozzi, Mathieu Jacomy and Anders Kristian Munk
Peirce Interprets Peirce: Digitization, Automation, and Interpretation in Charles Peirce’s Manuscripts — 2026
· Conference Paper
AIUCD

Peirce Interprets Peirce: Digitization, Automation, and Interpretation in Charles Peirce’s Manuscripts

with Alessandro Adamou, Sebastian Feil, Davide Picca, Carlo Teo Pedretti and Lorenzo Zangari
Surprise Machines: visualizzare le immagini d’archivio degli Harvard Art Museums — 2026
· Book Chapter
Archivi dei disegni di architettura: Fruizioni contemporanee

Surprise Machines: visualizzare le immagini d’archivio degli Harvard Art Museums

with Lins Derry, Douglas Duhaime, Jordan Kruguer, Maximilian C. Mueller, Christopher Pietsch, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jeff Steward and metaLAB
Visual Abstraction — 2026
· Book Chapter
Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary

Visual Abstraction

edited by Nathalie Fridzema and Anya Shchetvina
AI-Generated Images for Representing Individuals: Navigating the Thin Line between Care and Bias — 2025
· Conference Paper
IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP)

AI-Generated Images for Representing Individuals: Navigating the Thin Line between Care and Bias

with Julia C. Ahrend, Björn Döge and Tom M. Duscher
Collective Care: VISAP ’25 Catalog — 2025
· Book
IEEE VIS Conference, Vienna

Collective Care: VISAP ’25 Catalog

with Damla Çay, Weidi Zhang, Martina R. Fröschl, Peter Mindek and Beatrice Gobbo
Experiments of Network Literacy for Urban Designers: Bridging Information Design and Spatial Morphology — 2025
· Journal Article
Land

Experiments of Network Literacy for Urban Designers: Bridging Information Design and Spatial Morphology

edited by Marco Maretto and Nicola Marzot
Grounding AI Map: The Consequences of Living with the Trouble of an Irreductionist Map — 2025
· Journal Article
Revue Design Arts Medias

Grounding AI Map: The Consequences of Living with the Trouble of an Irreductionist Map

with Matilde Ficozzi, Mathieu Jacomy, Anne Beaulieu and Anders Kristian Munk
Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in Arnold Arboretum — 2025
· Conference Paper
IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP)

Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in Arnold Arboretum

with Johan Malmstedt and Giacomo Nanni
Moving Pictures of Thought: Extracting Visual Knowledge in Charles S. Peirce’s Manuscripts with Vision-Language Models — 2025
· Conference Paper
Anthology of Computers and the Humanities

Moving Pictures of Thought: Extracting Visual Knowledge in Charles S. Peirce’s Manuscripts with Vision-Language Models

with Carlo Teo Pedretti and Davide Picca
Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care — 2025
· Magazine Article
Nightingale

Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care

with Damla Çay and Weidi Zhang
Ethical and Aesthetical Questions on Stock Images: The Case of AI's Depictions — 2024
· Journal Article
Lessico Di Etica Pubblica

Ethical and Aesthetical Questions on Stock Images: The Case of AI's Depictions

with Alberto Romele and Sabina Rosenbergova
Mapping Techniques for an Automated Library Classification: The Case Study of Library Loans at Bibliotheca Hertziana — 2024
· Conference Paper
Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

Mapping Techniques for an Automated Library Classification: The Case Study of Library Loans at Bibliotheca Hertziana

with Hannah Laureen Casey and Alessandro Adamou
Super-Vision: Tracing EPFL History through 8,000 Doctoral Theses — 2024
· Journal Article
Journal of Digital History

Super-Vision: Tracing EPFL History through 8,000 Doctoral Theses

with Philippe Rivière and Sarah Kenderdine
Advanced Interface Design for IIIF: A Digital Tool to Explore Image Collections at Different Scales — 2023
· Journal Article
Umanistica Digitale

Advanced Interface Design for IIIF: A Digital Tool to Explore Image Collections at Different Scales

with Alberto Romele, José Higuera Rubio, Celeste Pedro, Matteo Azzi and Giorgio Uboldi
Orchestrating Cultural Heritage: Exploring the Automated Analysis and Organization of Charles S. Peirce’s PAP Manuscript — 2023
· Conference Paper
ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Orchestrating Cultural Heritage: Exploring the Automated Analysis and Organization of Charles S. Peirce’s PAP Manuscript

with Davide Picca, Antonin Schnyder, Eri Kostina, Alessandro Adamou and Jeffrey Schnapp
Weather Map: A Diachronic Visual Model for Controversy Mapping — 2023
· Book Chapter
Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities

Weather Map: A Diachronic Visual Model for Controversy Mapping

with Jean Daniélou
A Visual Translation of the Pandemic — 2022
· Journal Article
Leonardo

A Visual Translation of the Pandemic

with Eveline Wandl-Vogt and Elian Carsenat
Are We All Narcissists? The Pseudo-Narcissism of the Internet — 2022
· Book Chapter
From Wisdom to Data: Philosophical Atlas on Visual Representations of Knowledge

Are We All Narcissists? The Pseudo-Narcissism of the Internet

with Alexandre Rigal
COVIC: Collecting Visualizations of COVID-19 to Outline a Space of Possibilities — 2022
· Journal Article
Design Issues

COVIC: Collecting Visualizations of COVID-19 to Outline a Space of Possibilities

with Paul Kahn and Hugh Dubberly
From Wisdom to Data: Philosophical Atlas on Visual Representations of Knowledge — 2022
· Book
University of Porto Press

From Wisdom to Data: Philosophical Atlas on Visual Representations of Knowledge

edited with José Higuera Rubio, Alberto Romele and Celeste Pedro
Immersive Architectures for Visual Data Literacy — 2022
· Journal Article
Information Design Journal

Immersive Architectures for Visual Data Literacy

with Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Elian Carsenat, Jules Döring, Oliver Elias, Michaela Fragner and Stepha Farkashazy
Le pseudo-narcissisme et internet. Y a-t-il vraiment de plus en plus de narcissiques ? — 2022
· Magazine Article
Anthropocene 2050

Le pseudo-narcissisme et internet. Y a-t-il vraiment de plus en plus de narcissiques ?

with Alexandre Rigal
Reading Network Diagrams by Using Contour Lines and Word Clouds — 2022
· Conference Paper
Proceedings of Graphs and Networks in the Humanities

Reading Network Diagrams by Using Contour Lines and Word Clouds

with Alberto Romele
Surprise Machines: Revealing Harvard Art Museums’ Image Collection — 2022
· Journal Article
Information Design Journal

Surprise Machines: Revealing Harvard Art Museums’ Image Collection

with Lins Derry, Douglas Duhaime, Jordan Kruguer, Maximilian C. Mueller, Christopher Pietsch, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jeff Steward and metaLAB
Cartographie des affinités : Démocratiser la visualisation des données — 2021
· Book
Métis Presses

Cartographie des affinités : Démocratiser la visualisation des données

translated by Martine Sgard. Preface by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Making Visible the Invisible Work of Scientists during the COVID-19 Pandemic — 2021
· Journal Article
Visual Culture Studies

Making Visible the Invisible Work of Scientists during the COVID-19 Pandemic

with Eveline Wandl-Vogt and Elian Carsenat
Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization — 2021
· Book
Métis Presses

Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization

preface by Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Big Data and the Little Big Bang: An Epistemological (R)evolution — 2020
· Journal Article
Frontiers in Big Data

Big Data and the Little Big Bang: An Epistemological (R)evolution

with Dominik Balazka
Digital Habitus or Personalization without Personality — 2020
· Journal Article
HUMANA.MENTE

Digital Habitus or Personalization without Personality

with Alberto Romele
Drawing Network Visualizations on a Continuous, Spherical Surface — 2020
· Conference Paper
Information Visualisation

Drawing Network Visualizations on a Continuous, Spherical Surface

Immaginare gesti-barriera contro il ritorno alla produzione pre-crisi — 2020
· Magazine Article
Antinomie

Immaginare gesti-barriera contro il ritorno alla produzione pre-crisi

Bruno Latour. Translated with Daniele Guido, Donato Ricci and Giulia Taurino
Mapping as a Contemporary Instrument for Orientation in Conferences — 2020
· Conference Paper
AIUCD

Mapping as a Contemporary Instrument for Orientation in Conferences

with Chloe Ye Eun Moon
Mapping Affinities in Academic Organizations — 2018
· Journal Article
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

Mapping Affinities in Academic Organizations

with Frédéric Kaplan and Boris Beaude
Printing Walkable Visualizations — 2018
· Conference Paper
Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference

Printing Walkable Visualizations

Méduse, vers des visualisations plus complexes que le réseau — 2017
· Book Chapter
Chronotopies : lecture et écriture des mondes en mouvement

Méduse, vers des visualisations plus complexes que le réseau

with Alexandre Rigal
Circulation of Opinions in Visualization Reading — 2016
· Conference Paper
Valuable Visualization of Healthcare Information

Circulation of Opinions in Visualization Reading

edited by Federico Cabitza, Daniela Fogli, Massimiliano Giacomin and Angela Locoro
The Trajectories Tool: Amplifying Network Visualization Complexity — 2016
· Conference Paper
Digital Humanities

The Trajectories Tool: Amplifying Network Visualization Complexity

with Alexandre Rigal and Loup Cellard
La Città Analoga, la Mappa — 2015
· Map
EPFL Archizoom

La Città Analoga, la Mappa

Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin and Fabio Reinhart
The Analogous City, the Map — 2015
· Map
EPFL Archizoom

The Analogous City, the Map

Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin and Fabio Reinhart
Trajectoire d’une représentation cartographique en réseau — 2015
· Journal Article
Cartes & Géomatique

Trajectoire d’une représentation cartographique en réseau

with Alexandre Rigal
The Homer’s List or How Classifications Can Be Displayed on Tablets — 2013
· Conference Paper
Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge

The Homer’s List or How Classifications Can Be Displayed on Tablets

with Giorgio De Michelis
Guidelines to Visualize Vessels in a Geographic Information System — 2010
· Conference Paper
2010 14th International Conference Information Visualisation

Guidelines to Visualize Vessels in a Geographic Information System

Mapping for Multi-Source Visualization: Scientific Information Retrieval Service (SIRS) — 2009
· Conference Paper
Human Computer Interaction

Mapping for Multi-Source Visualization: Scientific Information Retrieval Service (SIRS)

with Matina Halkia and Massimiliano Gusmini
Role of Thesauri in a Scientific Organization — 2009
· Conference Paper
Networks of Design

Role of Thesauri in a Scientific Organization

with Carlo Ferigato, Giuseppe Merlo and Daniela Panfili