my speech at Tapestry conference, video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4hiKcnAsQM

1. room
usic
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music room
religious music
composition for piano
opera
orchestral music
vocal music
symphonic music
band m
prose
1840
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sion of work[...]
1901
1883
Aida
Cairo
to
ice
Nabucco
la - Milan
Il Trovatore
pollo - Rome
Macbeth
rgola - Florence
allo in maschera
tro Apollo - Rome
Otello
La Scala - Milan
Falstaff
La Scala - Milan
Don Carlos
Salle Le Peletier - Paris
Simon Boccanegra
La Fenice - Venice
La forza del destino
La Fenice - Venice
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Festspiel
Siegfried
Festspielhaus - Bayreuth
Tannhäuser
Semperoper - Dresde
Götterdämmerung
Festspielhaus - Bayreu
Lohengrin
National Theatre
Die Meistersing
National Theat
Rienzi, der Le
Tribunen
Semperoper
Der Ring d
Festspielha
(27th January)
Vincenz
Virginia Maria
elected as a liberal
-moderate representative
opening of the Suez Canal
(for which he composed Aida)
Franco-Prussian
war
death of Manzoni
(for which he composed
Messa di Requiem)
adoption of the
Albertine Statute
Unification of Italy
signed the Triple Alliance between
Germany, Austria and Italy
Margherita
Barezzi
Giuseppina
Strepponi
entry into the Senate
Icilio Romano
(13th february)
Cosima Wagner
Matilde
Wesendonck
Isolde
Eva
Sigfrido
flees to Switzerland
for political reasons
active participation in
revolutionary movements
=
BEAUTIFUL REASONS
Tapestry conference
26 February 2014
Annapolis
giorgia lupi
tw: @giorgialupi
www.accurat.it
www.giorgialupi.net
Thursday 27 February 14

2. room
usic
o
music room
religious music
composition for piano
opera
orchestral music
vocal music
symphonic music
band m
prose
1840
1845
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880
1890
1900
1895
1885
sion of work[...]
1901
1883
Aida
Cairo
to
ice
Nabucco
la - Milan
Il Trovatore
pollo - Rome
Macbeth
rgola - Florence
allo in maschera
tro Apollo - Rome
Otello
La Scala - Milan
Falstaff
La Scala - Milan
Don Carlos
Salle Le Peletier - Paris
Simon Boccanegra
La Fenice - Venice
La forza del destino
La Fenice - Venice
·28
Festspiel
Siegfried
Festspielhaus - Bayreuth
Tannhäuser
Semperoper - Dresde
Götterdämmerung
Festspielhaus - Bayreu
Lohengrin
National Theatre
Die Meistersing
National Theat
Rienzi, der Le
Tribunen
Semperoper
Der Ring d
Festspielha
(27th January)
Vincenz
Virginia Maria
elected as a liberal
-moderate representative
opening of the Suez Canal
(for which he composed Aida)
Franco-Prussian
war
death of Manzoni
(for which he composed
Messa di Requiem)
adoption of the
Albertine Statute
Unification of Italy
signed the Triple Alliance between
Germany, Austria and Italy
Margherita
Barezzi
Giuseppina
Strepponi
entry into the Senate
Icilio Romano
(13th february)
Cosima Wagner
Matilde
Wesendonck
Isolde
Eva
Sigfrido
flees to Switzerland
for political reasons
active participation in
revolutionary movements
=
BEAUTIFUL REASONS
Tapestry conference
26 February 2014
Annapolis
giorgia lupi
tw: @giorgialupi
www.accurat.it
www.giorgialupi.net
Thursday 27 February 14

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We think that the aesthetic aspects
of data-visualization can be considered
as important as the data itself
in helping readers get interested about a topic
and triggering their curiosity to explore more
Accurat for Popular Science, May Issue
Thursday 27 February 14

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We think that
aesthetic features
can be considered
not only as an ornamental attribute
within a data-driven visual story
Accurat for La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
Thursday 27 February 14

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we think that we should, in some particular cases,
allow for a visualization to take its shape from a
visual idea and not straight from the data:
Accurat for La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
Thursday 27 February 14

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we think that a reader should be able to find
a data-visualization both
intellectually compelling and emotionally rich
Accurat for La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
Thursday 27 February 14

7. Oh, that is beautiful.
And strange!
I want to know what this is about!
image from Populuxe Set, Creative Commons licence
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8. VISUALIZING PAINTERS’ LIVES
Personal Project, directed by Giorgia Lupi and Michela Buttignol, produced by Accurat
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10. Can we add more fun?
image from Populuxe Set, Creative Commons licence
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11. A SLICE FOR EVERYONE
MC CANN WorldGroup, Accurat
for Fiorucci
Thursday 27 February 14

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19. can we do it
when we have
a limited
amount of data?
image from Populuxe Set, Creative Commons licence
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Thursday 27 February 14

20. “FAMOUS WRITERS’ SLEEP HABITS
AND LITERARY PRODUCTIVITY”
Maria Popova, Accurat, Wendy MacNaughton,
for brainpickings.org
Thursday 27 February 14

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27. can we do it even
with interactive
data visualizations?
image from Populuxe Set, Creative Commons licence
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28. NEXT ATLAS
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30. NEXT ATLAS
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loading an analytical representation with
emotional investment
can generate attention rather than distraction
Accurat for La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
Thursday 27 February 14

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purpose:
testing what is interesting and what is not,
...what people like and what they don’t,
....what they understand and what they don’t
Accurat for La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
Thursday 27 February 14

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The risk we take is a constant search for beauty,
unconventional, but still beauty,
to make people “wander”.
Accurat for La Lettura, Corriere della Sera
Thursday 27 February 14

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BEAUTIFUL REASONS
Tapestry conference
26 February 2014
Annapolis
giorgia lupi
tw: @giorgialupi
www.accurat.it
www.giorgialupi.net
Thursday 27 February 14