Riccardo Pravettoni: What Makes A Good Map? (Not A New Tool)

Drought in the Suez canal, war in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the Houthis attacks to vessels in the Bab Al-Mandab strait, European sanctions on Russian oil, intensified hurricanes crossing the oceans, the resurgence of piracy along the Somalian coasts and the strait of Malacca, Chinese ambitions over Taiwan, the establishment of a new Arctic route– all elements of disruption passing through the world’s main maritime routes. How to show the complexity of such intertwined events and their effects? What kind of processes lie behind the production and the visualisation of this sort of information? In short: how to turn all this into a map (a good one)?

About the Speaker

Geographer, journalist and cartographer, works at Le Monde with the Cartography and Infographics team. Specialised in environmental and conflict mapping, he’s been producing different stories and cartographic reportages over the past 15 years, for the United Nations and other media outlets (The Guardian, El Paìs, Il Post, l’Obs).

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This event is hosted by Tactical Tech as part of the Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI). Tactical Tech is an international non-profit organisation that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Exposing the Invisible is a Tactical Tech project that develops resources, training and collaborations promoting investigation as one of the most important forms of public engagement.

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