DesignTalks 2022 - Giorgia Lupi, information designer and partner at Pentagram
Giorgia Lupi, information designer and partner at Pentagram in New York is speaking at DesignTalks 2022, the international conference and signature event of DesignMarch, exploring how design and architecture can help imagine and propose alternative futures and promote change.
“Big data doesn't belong to a distant dystopian future; it's a commodity and an intrinsic and iconic feature of our present – like dollars, concrete, automobiles, and Helvetica.”
Advocating for data humanism, Lupi’s work synthesizes data and storytelling in innovative ways to create unique and singular brand expressions. In her practice, she designs engaging data-driven visual narratives across print, digital and environmental media that create new insight and appreciation of people, ideas, and organizations.
Lupi has a PhD in Design and a master’s degree in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano . She is co-author of Dear Data and of the new interactive book Observe, Collect, Draw - A Visual Journal. Also a public speaker, her TED TALK on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has been named One of "Fast Company's" 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, when she also joined MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and recently became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
DesignTalks 2022 will take place in Harpa on the 4th of May and is curated by Hlin Helga Guðlaugsdóttir and this year the event will be moderated by Marcus Fairs, editor-in-chief and founder of Dezeen, connecting the conversations to a wider context, highlighting its relevance to an audience across professional fields.
The programme will be an exploration of resilient approaches, regeneration and reconnection with traditional crafts and indigenious wisdom, experiments rewiring and rethinking current systems, the design of data and information, extended realities and speculation into the future as a form of creative and critical reflection of the now.
“It will be a celebration of imagination - and a moment for deep thinking.”
- curator Hlin Helga
Stay tuned as we will announce the speakers for DesignTalks 2022!
