Constucting La Biennale
Data Art and Visualization / Visual Design / Typography / Code
Goal: Ideate wall for the year-by-year representation of Biennale participants’ networks, generate initial networks and create print-ready wall design
Result: Visual language for Biennale complex networks story, more than 40 versions of networks drafts that lay a foundation for the algorithmic visualization, print-ready wall-design with hand-picked colors
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Gephi, Cytoscape, Python
Duration: Jan 2024-April 2025
Constructing La Biennale is a 30-meter by 8-meter data art visualization of all the 12,000 architects who have participated in the Architectural Biennale over the decades.
It is a timeline of Biennale represented as a set of networks (for each year) of collaborators and their 3,800 projects.
FEBRUARY: Looking at the data
FEBRUARY, DRAFT 1: 1991
2006
1985
2014
FEBRUARY, DRAFT 2: 1985
FEBRUARY, DRAFT 2: 1985
FEBRUARY-MARCH: Walls composition development
Wall organized by people who participated in several Biennales, thus are connectors.
MARCH-APRIL DRAFTS: Details
Participants
Department of Architecture and Design – DAD, Politecnico di Torino
Michele Bonino (coordination)
Albena Yaneva
BarabasiLab, Northeastern University
Albert-László Barabási
Center for Design, Northeastern University
Paolo Ciuccarelli
Team:
DAD, Politecnico di Torino: Edoardo Bruno, Valeria Federighi, Camilla Forina, Monica
Naso (Architectural Design and Curatorial Coordination); Micol Rispoli (Ethnography of
Architecture)
Alp Arda with Noha Lentz, Zhenyi Chai (Architectural Design and Curatorial Coordination)
BarabasiLab: Csaba Both, Alice Grishchenko, Daria Koshkina (Data Visualization and Network Science)
Ábel Elekes, Rodrigo Dorantes Gilardi, Yixuan Liu, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (Data Analysis and Network Science)
Center for Design: Todd Linkner, Matthew Blanco, Lindsey Henriques (Information Design and Data
Visualization)
University of Manchester: Benjamin Blackwell (Ethnography of Architecture)
Technical Collaborators:
SABO Studio
Multimedia Lab, DAD, Politecnico di Torino (filming and editing Riccardo Covino and
Pietro Merlo)
Geomatics for Cultural Heritage Lab, DAD PoliTo
Supporters:
Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo; Camera di Commercio di Torino; Department
of Network and Data Science – Central European University; Politecnico di Torino;
Northeastern University; SECAP S.p.A.; REPLY S.p.A.