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What happens if communities owned their data?— issue #72
Communities are understanding how they can take charge of their own data, or reimagine the use of digital tools for practical and meaningful solutions that ensures benefits are shared. Data, it turns out, is not only a resource to be extracted, but a form of power that can be claimed.
How can we care with data?
Munirah reflects on Kontinentalist’s experience during the Vis Arts Program 2025 (VISAP) conference in Vienna, where designers, researchers and artists come together to present their approach of visualising data with care, and the inescapable cloud of data as power currencies in today’s world.
Humans of Kontinentalist: Lee Hoon Hee
We caught up with our lovely editorial-marketing intern, Hoon Hee, over the phone to bring you this edition of HOK!
Can data speak for Mother Earth? — issue #12
"Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear." —Richard Powers, The Overstory Remember when the lockdowns began in March? Amidst panic, we still found it in ourselves to marvel at how COVID-19 was helping the environment heal.
How COVID-19 has changed the data storytelling landscape
We’re at the midway point of 2020 and, quite unbelievably, the world has been brought to its knees by the invisible yet pervasive COVID-19…
Designing data visualisations for social media
As Kontinentalist’s Multimedia Designer, one of the things I’m in charge of is creating social media assets as teasers for our stories…
Humans of Kontinentalist: Kenneth Wee
Before you read this interview, there are some basic facts you need to know about Kenneth: 1. He is a penguin 2. Coffee flows through his…
Helping the environment by staying home — issue #11
What does the future of travel look like? Singapore has been in a semi-lockdown (or circuit breaker, as we call it) for almost two months. There's been hot debate on how life may return "back to normal". Like nearly everywhere else in the world, the real
Let’s talk about mental health!
Editor’s note: This roundtable was organised by our former intern, Zu Xiang, in January 2020, before the Circuit Breaker was implemented…
Humans of Kontinentalist: Siti Aishah
Today we are chatting (remotely) with Aishah to find out more about her and the work that she does at Kontinentalist!
Coding a Konti Story
In my 8 months of working with Konti as a front-end web-developer, I’d worked on 5 hard-coded stories, and a handful of auxiliary data viz…
Humans of Kontinentalist: Gwyneth Cheng
Today, we are catching up with our writer, Gwyneth. You may have seen her most recent story on the Cross-Island Line project. As we are…
Imagining a Singapore before COVID-19 — issue #10
If you're anything like me, you've rather heard enough about COVID-19. Day in, day out, it seems like all we can talk about is COVID-19, our daily case numbers, and how the virus is rapidly changing our world. This should surprise no one—we are living
How I write data-driven stories
I’ve been a writer for almost two years now at Kontinentalist, a data-driven editorial studio in Singapore. In that time, I’ve interviewed…