Dario Rodighiero
Design, Science,
and Humanities
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Dario is a research scholar at Harvard Metalab, a research unit dedicated to innovation in the arts and humanities and hosted at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. The Swiss National Science Foundation granted him two consecutive fellowships.
His capacity at the intersection of design, science, and humanities makes him comfortable in multiple disciplines. His education begins in theory and technology of communication, while his doctoral studies brought him to investigate the field of digital humanities.
All his scientific works are characterized by a strong and clean sense of design according to the interdisciplinary approach of the Bauhaus. He thinks research should also be addressed through public exhibitions, digital installations, and open-source software.
A part of his research revolves around the concepts of quantified self and self-recognition. Specifically, he is interested in the way in which individuals perceive themselves through data and their visual representations, and how these shape their daily practices and behaviors.
His current projects examine the social dynamics of research in terms of international collaborations and mobility flows. When public events went online, he designed a visual method to map conference speakers according to their lexical affinity.
After attending the doctoral program of Architecture and Sciences of the City, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) awarded him a Ph.D. in Science.
He has lectured in many institutions, including the King’s College London and the CERN. Formerly he was employed at MIT, Sciences Po, and the European Commission, which recently appointed him as an external expert in data visualization and interface design.
As a member of the ERC project led by Bruno Latour, Dario is a proud finalist of the ADI Compasso d’Oro Award 2020, one of the most prestigious design awards.
Grants
Recommendation System
for Academic Mobility
SNSF Postdoc.Mobility (2020‑2022)
Worldwide Map of Research
SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility (2019‑2020)
From Data to Wisdom
FCT (2019‑2022)
Presentations
Designing the Part-Whole Self
HUGSA Virtual Conference: Designing the Self (2020)
Introduction to Data Visualization
Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society (2020)
Academic Mapping of Human Dynamics
Massachusetts Intitute of Technology (2020)
Computational Literacy for Graphic Design
Université du Québec à Montréal (2020)
Translations
Immaginare gesti-barriera contro
il ritorno alla produzione pre-crisi
by Bruno Latour for Antinomie (2020)
Articles
Drawing Network Visualizations
on a Continuous, Spherical Surface
International Conference Information Visualisation (2020)
Big Data and the Little Big Bang:
An Epistemological (R)evolution
Frontiers in Big Data (2020)
Digital Habitus
or Personalization Without Personality
HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies (2020)
Mapping as a Contemporary Instrument
for Orientation in Conferences
Proceedings of IX Conference AIUCD (2020)
The Hermeneutic Circle of Data Visualization
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (2020)
Self-Recognition in Data Visualization
Espacetemps.net (2019)
Printing Walkable Visualizations
Transimage Conference (2018)
Mapping Affinities in Academic Organizations
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (2018)
The Analogous City, the Map
EPFL Archizoom Press (2015)
“Alongside Daniele [Guido] and Donato [Ricci], Dario is part of the ‘Little Italy’ that has set up shop in the AIME offices. Apart from sharing his enthusiasm and insatiable curiosity, Dario has brought along ten years experience in designing digital interfaces. With the others on the team, he has given life and form to the daring insights of both himself and his compatriots.”
— Bruno Latour, Paris 2013