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Unlearning what we know — issue #58

“I have learned the names of all the bushes, but I have yet to learn their songs.” These past months, the Kontinentalist team has been deep in learning and reflection. We started our “Decolonial Reading Club”: bi-monthly sessions breaking down coloniality, knowledge, and being. This quote from Braiding Sweetgrass, recounting

Zafirah Zein
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On Palestine: Covering culture in a time of genocide

What does Gaza require from those who bear witness? The team behind our latest story on Palestine shares their process, thoughts, and feelings while highlighting the beauty of life in Gaza amid the profound loss of Palestinian heritage and cultural identity.  Zafirah (Writer): I came across an Instagram post by

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Humans of Kontinentalist: Kathy Xu

Kathy is our resident mariner and writer at Kontinentalist. She covers marine and environmental topics and her life is very closely…

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Humans of Kontinentalist: Phoebe Rollin

In this edition of Humans of Konti, we catch up with Phoebe. Phoebe interned at Kontinentalist for a month from January-February this year…

Joceline K
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Getting started with basemap design for map first UI — a non-cartographer’s guide

From apps like Uber and Snapchat, to storytelling platforms like National Geographic’s Geostories, the map has increasingly taken centre…

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Storytelling with maps

Recently we were invited by the Data Vis Singapore Meetup group to present our story on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in China. This…

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The Road to v1.0 of Kontinentalist’s website

Setting up a website from scratch may be easier than building Rome, but Kontinentalist wasn’t built in a day as well. Our Wayfinder / lead developer Dylan details his journey in making v1.0 happen. When I first joined Kontinentalist, my primary task as the head developer was to set

Pei Ying
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5 tips for better writing

The first thing that must be understood about writing, is that anyone and everyone can write. The key question is: how do we write well?

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Humans of Kontinentalist: Griselda Gabriele

Hi Griselda, when did you join Kontinentalist?

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What we learned from creating a viral map

Exactly a month ago, we published this map to show the distribution of lottery winners across Singapore Pools outlets in anticipation of…

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Ying Xuan’s Journey to the Maps: Interning at Kontinentalist

My name is Ying Xuan and I am currently a third-year student at the National University of Singapore, majoring in Environmental Studies…

Rifqi Ruhyattamam
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Docker — Time to Isolate Up The Development Environment to Containers!

The story of how did we migrate to Docker as a development environment. Let’s get to know more now!

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Humans of Kontinentalist: Ying Xuan

In this edition of Humans of Konti, we catch up with Ying Xuan. Ying Xuan interned at Kontinentalist for a month from December last year…

Griselda Gabriele
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Make It Matter: Spider-Verse (Animator’s perspective)

Being the seventh Spider-Man film, added only a year after Spider-Man: Homecoming and a PS4 game, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse could…