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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.


    Visual Journalism

    This course is designed to provide an overview of visual storytelling in the newsroom. We will explore a variety of narrative formats and design principles, learn about reporting techniques for visual stories, touch on the best practices and ethics of journalism and work on collaborative exercises and assignments.