Data Storytelling for Memory Making and Social Resilience

(1 Credit)

"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."