Dario Rodighiero
Design, Data,
and Humanities
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Dario is an Assistant Professor of Sciences and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, serving the multidisciplinary faculty of Campus Fryslân at the department of Knowledge Infrastructures.For the faculty, he coordinates the minor Data Wise, teaches in the Bachelor’s program Data Science and Society, and establishes partnerships with companies and institutions.
He is affiliated at Harvard University with metaLAB and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and is currently a research fellow of Edgelands Institute.
Dario’s research is rooted in knowledge design, critical data studies, and digital humanities, focusing on the mapping of science and GLAM digital archives.
His interdisciplinarity allows him to work across multiple domains, making him an excellent mediator between experts from different fields.
With Metis Press, he authored Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization, a book about charting scientific communities from a design-driven perspective.
EPFL awarded him a Ph.D. in Sciences after attending the doctoral program of Architecture and Sciences of the City.
Over the years, he was employed at MIT, Sciences Po, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the European Commission, lecturing at CERN and Ars Electronica and exhibiting at MAXXI and the Harvard Art Museums.
Books
Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization
Metis Presses (2021)
From Wisdom to Data: Philosophical Atla on Visual Representations of Knowledge
Porto University Press (2022)
The Analogous City, the Map
EPFL Archizoom Press (2015)
Journals
Surprise Machines: Revealing Harvard Art Museums’ Image Collection
Information Design Journal (2022)
A Visual Translation of the Pandemic
Leonardo (2022)
Extending Museum Beyond Physical Space: A Data-Driven Study of Aldo Rossi's Analogous City as a Mobile Museum Object
International Journal for Digital Art History (2022)
Making Visible the Invisible Work of Scientists during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Visual Culture Studies (2021)
Conferences
Reading Network Diagram by Using Contour Lines and Word Clouds
Graphs and Networks in the Humanities (2022)
Drawing Network Visualization on a Continuous, Spherical Surface
International Conference Information Visualisation (2020)
Printing Walkable Visualizations
Transimage Conference (2018)
Magazines
Ars Memorativa as the Genesis of Information Design: A Conversation with Manuel Lima
Nightingale (2021)
Critical Data Literacy in Immersive Digital Spaces
DARIAH (2022)
Le pseudo-narcissisme et internet. Y a-t-il vraiment de plus en plus de narcissiques?
Anthropocene 2050 (2022)
“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