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    Topics in ITP – Data Storytelling for Memory Making and Social Resilience

    This course will use the open source The COVID-19 Impact Project as an entry point to explore humanizing data on systemic inequity and injustice on a global and local scale.

    In this course we will:

    ● Explore and invent creative uses of data for advocacy and change.
    ● Discover how data flows from public github repositories and tools needed to visualize the data.
    ● Review other data-centric open source projects for the public good and discuss the questions they are trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve.
    ● Examine and draw inspiration from historical and contemporary data visualizations developed by advocates for social justice and the public good.
    ● Use data visualization as a scaffold to explore ways to support community driven mourning and memorialization after mass death events.

    Students can choose to participate as creatives, artists, javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, data science explorers or social justice advocates.

    Course Outline
    ● Open Source Projects for the Public Good
    ● Data: Sourcing, Humanizing and Creating Visual Narratives from Data
    ● Storytelling with and from Data
    ● Data storytelling as a scaffold to support grief, ritual and memorialization after mass death events

    ** Students wishing to pursue their final projects beyond the class will be provided with information about resources at NYU for supporting student projects that amplify underrepresented narratives.

    ** Students wishing to continue their participation in The COVID-19 Impact Project after the course ends should notify us as we are seeking grant funding to implement viable concepts.