Giorgia Lupi
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Born 1981, Finale Nell’Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; lives in New York, New York
The Room of Change, 2019; mixed media installation for the Milan Triennial; 30 meters long
Giorgia Lupi’s The Room of Change was originally created for the Milan Triennial in 2019 whose subject centered on a connection between humans and the natural environment. Lupi’s design was a 30-meters- long handmade tapestry derived from data about the changing environment and how it has impacted daily life. Because the data painted such a big picture of life over long periods of time, Lupi wanted to make the work and the story it told feel more personal and relatable. From left to right, time is meant to “flow” across the wall, indicated by different visual components representing different information making each section of the wall a moment frozen in time. A corresponding legend mounted in the room is designed to explain the global framework and how to read the individual stories from various perspectives.
Lupi is an information designer and a Partner at Pentagram in New York. After receiving her master’s degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York. She is co-author of Dear Data and of the new interactive book Observe, Collect, Draw – A Visual Journal. Lupi is also a public speaker: her TED TALK on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views.
She has been named One of “Fast Company’s” 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018, when she also joined MIT Media Lab as a Director’s Fellow. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on New Metrics and recently became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where in 2017 she also was commissioned to create an original site-specific piece.
Photo credit: Pentagram
