Hey, I'm Giacomo and

 

I am an information designer based in Berlin, mainly interested in exploring the intersection of technology, data, and design. My practice focuses on drawing attention to complex, invisible systems which I explore, conceptualise, criticise and visualise in order to reframe them.

I create, collect ad reorganise data. With that, I create web apps, books, exhibitions and interactive visualisations. In addition, I am interested in pursuing not-for-profit activities related to environmental and social justice, storytelling and journalism.

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✐ Education

2017 → 2019
Design Academy Eindhoven ⤿

Information Design, M.A. (with honors)

2016 → 2016
Bergen Academy of Art and Design ⤿

Erasmus Semester

2013 → 2017
Bologna’s Fine Arts Academy ⤿

Graphic Design, B.A. (110/110 with honors )

⚑ Work ✦ Ongoing

01/2024 → Today
Airwars ✦ ⤿

Innovation Lead
Creation of tools and visualisations to support investigative journalism and humanitarian research. Coordination of the design and development of the Open Source Munitions Portal, a platform for documenting weapons and civilian casualties.

01/2024 → Today
metaLAB (at) Harvard ✦ ⤿

Researcher
Development of design methodologies and visual research for projects that combine arts, digital humanities and technology. Collaboration on the creation of installations, publications and digital platforms for research and cultural dissemination.

07/2024 → Today
Krisenstab / Thomet & Nanni GbR ✦ ⤿

Co-founder of the Krisenstab design studio
Berlin-based studio active in interaction design, data visualisation, software development and media design.

Relevant Projects

2025
Het Nieuwe Instituut ⤿

Unfolding the Archive: research platform visualizing metadata of born-digital architecture records.

2025
FABER ⤿

Chemical Trajectories: data installation mapping the evolution of Romania’s chemical industry (1960–today).

2024
Prototype Fund, Federal Ministry of Education and Research ⤿

Vantage: open source platform for the verification and spatial reconstruction of videos and images in conflict contexts. A tool designed for investigative journalists, fact-checkers and OSINT teams, integrating photomatching, geospatial data and 3D environments for analysis and interactive storytelling.

01/2021 → 11/2023
Urban Complexity Lab ⤿

Researcher
Interaction and information design activities in interdisciplinary research projects dedicated to the visualisation of complex data and scientific communication. Contribution to exhibitions, publications and digital platforms developed within the laboratory.

01/2020 → 12/2021
Airwars ⤿

Volunteer, Geolocation
Geolocation and open-source analysis activities to map incidents and bombings in the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya. Collaboration with the investigative team to verify and visualise humanitarian data.

09/2019 → 12/2021
Chialab ⤿

Information Designer
Design of interfaces and information systems for cultural and publishing institutions, including Zanichelli, Cittá degli archivi and Darsena Ravenna. Information design, data visualisation and interactive development activities.

05/2018 → Today
Independent Practice ✦

Information Designer

2024 → 2025
Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino ⤿

Performance: data storytelling installation visualizing 22 560 Olympic Winter Games athletes (1924–2022).

2024
Airwars ⤿

Visual platform for the Airwars & Sky News investigation on IDF strike footage.

2023
Serve & Volley ⤿

Orte der Bonner Republik: design and development of archival web platform.

2022
Het Nieuwe Instituut ⤿

Bakema Newsletter Archive: digital interface for a corpus of post-war architectural material.

2022
Froh! e.V. ⤿

Crrritical: interactive publishing platform for journalism and civic debate.

2022
Het Nieuwe Instituut, MVRDV ⤿

MVRDVHNI – The Living Archive of a Studio: experimental digital archive for the exhibition.

2021
Stellablau Kollektiv ⤿

Erzählen ist Liebe: storytelling archive platform.

2020
Design Academy Eindhoven ⤿

Graduation Show 2020: editorial web platform for Dutch Design Week.

2020
Design Academy Eindhoven ⤿

GEO–DESIGN: digital exhibition system for multiple iterations.

2019
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven ⤿

The Oceanic Pole of Undefined Liability : installation exploring atmospheric re-entry of space debris.

2017 → 2018
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ⤿

Redesign of the institution’s visual identity and communication system.

02/2017 → 07/2017
Chialab ⤿

Information Designer
Development of a digital archive prototype for the Bologna Children's Book Fair, dedicated to searching for illustrators by visual style. Analysis and automatic classification of illustrations using machine learning and design of a visual exploration web app

✹ Exhibitions / Mentions

2025
Work featured in the ADI Design Index 2025 ⤿

Italy

2025
Exhibit at Design Signals – Chemical Bonds ⤿

Timișoara, Romania

2025
Exhibit at Indiecon 2025 ⤿

Hamburg, Germany

2025
Exhibit at Le Gallerie ⤿

Trento, Italy

2024
Exhibit at Commons Cosmodrome, Berlin Art Week ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2024
Exhibit at Indiecon 2024 ⤿

Hamburg, Germany

2024
Exhibit at ZK/U Open Haus ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2024
Member of the non-profit organization Froh! (since February 2024) ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2024
Exhibit at Italy: A New Collective Landscape, HKDI Gallery ⤿

Hong Kong

2024
Exhibit at Melitosfex – Design Parade Toulon ⤿

Toulon, France

2024
Exhibit of Not a Network ⤿

Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin, Germany

2023
Exhibit at Italy: A New Collective Landscape, ADI Design Museum ⤿

Milano, Italy

2023
Feature of: Oceanic Pole of Undefined Liability on Artribune ⤿

Artribune (online)

2021
Feature of Crrritical.space ⤿

Slanted Magazine (online)

2021
Exhibit at MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a Studio, Het Nieuwe Instituut ⤿

Rotterdam, Netherlands

2020
Feature of GEO:DESIGN: Sand / GEO:DESIGN: COVID-19 ⤿

E-Flux (online)

2020
Exhibit of Oceanic Pole of Undefined Liability ⤿

Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Netherlands

2019
Exhibit of Oceanic Pole of Undefined Liability ⤿

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2019
Exhibit of Garbage in, Garbage out, Graduation Show, Dutch Design Week ⤿

Eindhoven, Netherlands

2018
Work featured in the 25th Compasso d’Oro Award

Italy

2017
Finalist Works: National Arts Award – Design Section ⤿

ISIA Faenza, Italy

2017
Exhibit at Fahrenheit39 ⤿

Ravenna, Italy

2017
Work featured in the ADI Design Index 2016 ⤿

Italy

2015
Exhibit at Posterheroes 5 – Food in the Loop ⤿

Torino, Italy

2014
Exhibit at Posterheroes 4 – The Food System ⤿

Torino, Italy

✹ Publications & Conferences

2025
Paper: Living Library of Trees – Mapping Knowledge Ecology in Arnold Arboretum
(IEEE VIS Arts Program – VISAP)
⤿

Vienna, Austria

2025
Program Committee Member: IEEE VIS Arts Program
(VISAP 2025)
⤿

Vienna, Austria

2025
Panel Discussion: The Two Sides of the Coin – Software Development Beyond the Code
(Eight Years of Prototype Fund)
⤿

Berlin, Germany

2025
Contributor: ReFa Reader
(DH2025 Conference)

Lisbon, Portugal

2025
Presentation: Prototype Fund Demo Day ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2025
Organising team: data-art conference ⤿

Harvard, USA

2024
Interactive Visualisation of the Correspondence Network by Jaap Bakema ⤿

Delft, Netherlands

2024
Talk: Forecast Condensed – Coding the Human: We Have Become Tools in the Hands of Our Tools
(Berlin Science Week)
⤿

Berlin, Germany

2023
Paper: Tracing and Telling – Exploring Collection Holdings through Graph-based Narratives
(EVA Berlin 2023)
⤿

Berlin, Germany

2023
Paper: Linked Cultural Data in Fashion History – Information Visualization as an Explorative and Narrative Tool
(EuropeanaTech 2023)

The Hague, Netherlands

2023
Paper: The Research is Happening in the Text Fields – Are Linked Open Data and Art History a Good Match?
(DH2023 “Collaboration as Opportunity”)
⤿

Graz, Austria

2022
Paper: Visualizing Cultural Heritage – Visual Approaches to Modeling and Presenting Multimodal Data
(CIDOC Conference)
⤿

Tallinn, Estonia

2022
Talk: Using Knowledge Graphs in Cultural Heritage
(Data Meetup)
⤿

Utrecht, Netherlands

2021
Presentation: Relational Landscapes Symposium
(FH Potsdam)
⤿

Potsdam, Germany

✹ Teaching & Workshops

2025
Workshop: Mapping the City (Aachen University of Applied Sciences)

Aachen, Germany

2025
Design Supervision: Jessica Kürschner, Free Focus Semester (Design Academy Eindhoven)

Eindhoven, Netherlands

2025
Workshop: Algorithmic Ecologies ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2024
Workshop: Jetsam – Acts of Queering AI ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2023 → 2024
Teaching: Creative Coding, Winter Semester (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin) ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2023
Teaching: Creative Coding, Spring Semester (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin) ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2023
Workshop: Digital Mapping of Contemporaneity, Activism & Ecology (Freie Universität Berlin) ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2023
Workshop: Exploration & Narration of Temporal Data with Johanna Drucker (FH Potsdam)

Potsdam, Germany

2022
Workshop: Visualizing Cultural Collections (FH Potsdam)

Potsdam, Germany

2022
Workshop: Amazonia Future Lab (re:publica) ⤿

Berlin, Germany

2022
Workshop: Data Production in the Interface with Johanna Drucker (FH Potsdam)

Potsdam, Germany

2022
Workshop: Geospatial Narratives (Design Academy Eindhoven)

Eindhoven, Netherlands

2021
Workshop: Ever Again? (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences) ⤿

Kleve, Germany

2020
Lecture: Data & Information (Listaháskóli Íslands)

Reykjavik, Iceland

2019
Lecture: Design / Coding (Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna)

Bologna, Italy

2018
Workshop: AI, Chatbots and Biases (Temporary Art Center)

Eindhoven, Netherlands

✹ Funding

2024
Prototype Fund Round 16: Vantage project selected and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the development of open source tools for investigative journalism. ⤿

Berlin, Germany

❋ Skillsets

Languages

Design & Visualization

Coding & Computational Design

Data & Machine Learning

3D & Spatial Tools

Additional Experience