Dario Rodighiero is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, where he coordinates programs that bridge data science with society. Based at the interdisciplinary faculty Campus Fryslân, he coordinates the minor Data Wise and teaches data and visual literacy within the Data Science and Society Bachelor’s program. He maintains active collaborations with Harvard University, where he is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a principal at metaLAB—a research and teaching laboratory dedicated to experimenting with digital technologies in the arts and humanities.
Combining computational techniques with critical design, Dario investigates how complex information is structured and communicated. Grounded in Science and Technology Studies, his research focuses on the mapping of science, visualizing scholarly networks and institutional dynamics. Such research further engages with digital archives and digital humanities, exploring questions of representation, interpretation, and self-identification. Visualization is approached as a method for knowledge design, bridging critical inquiry and design practice, fostering the development of visual tools that encourage reflection, support dialogue, and open new modes of understanding.
He is the author of Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization, which proposes new ways to visualize organizational charts. Dario holds a PhD from EPFL and has held research and teaching positions at MIT, the European Commission, Paris-Sorbonne University, and Sciences Po. The collaboration with Bruno Latour at the médialab shaped his engagement with digital platforms as tools for philosophical inquiry and collective exploration. His work has been shared in venues such as CERN and Ars Electronica, and exhibited at the MAXXI and Harvard Art Museums, reflecting a sustained commitment to public engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Nightingale
2025
https://nightingaledvs.com/visualizing-as-a-form-of-collective-care/
2025
Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care
Çay, Damla, Dario Rodighiero, and Weidi Zhanghttps://nightingaledvs.com/visualizing-as-a-form-of-collective-care/
Care is easy to recognize on a personal level, especially when it takes the form of small, attentive gestures woven into daily life. We see it in how someone nurses a sick friend, tends a garden, or stitches a quilt by hand. Each act, marked by presence, patience, and the quiet commitment to care through touch, time, and attention. It takes shape through quiet, deliberate acts that often go unnoticed, yet carry lasting weight and meaning. But what does care look like when it scales up—across complex systems where the risks are higher, the people more dispersed, and the consequences harder to see?
Antinomie
2020
https://antinomie.it/index.php/2020/04/09/immaginare-gesti-barriera-contro-il-ritorno-alla-produzione-pre-crisi/
2020
Immaginare Gesti-Barriera Contro Il Ritorno Alla Produzione Pre-Crisi
Latour, Bruno. Translated by Daniele Guido, Donato Ricci, Dario Rodighiero, and Giulia Taurinohttps://antinomie.it/index.php/2020/04/09/immaginare-gesti-barriera-contro-il-ritorno-alla-produzione-pre-crisi/
Potrebbe esserci qualcosa di inappropriato nel guardare all’era post-crisi quando gli operatori sanitari sono ancora “in prima linea”, milioni di persone stanno perdendo il lavoro, e molte famiglie in lutto non possono nemmeno seppellire i loro morti. Eppure, è proprio questo il momento di lottare affinché la ripresa economica, una volta terminata la crisi, non ci riporti allo stesso vecchio regime climatico contro il quale finora abbiamo tentato, senza successo, di combattere. In effetti, la crisi sanitaria è inserita in quella che non è una crisi – sempre passeggera per definizione – ma piuttosto una mutazione ecologica duratura e irreversibile. Se abbiamo delle buone possibilità di “uscire” dalla prima, ne abbiamo ben poche di “uscire” dalla seconda. Le due situazioni non sono alla stessa scala di grandezza, ma resta illuminante articolarle l’una con l’altra. In ogni caso, sarebbe un peccato non riflettere sulla crisi sanitaria per scoprire altri modi di entrare nella mutazione ecologica, piuttosto che farlo alla cieca.
“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