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“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
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
Last month, Mick and I had the great fortune of conducting office hours for students from the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam…
We’re excited to bring you our first interview of our Community initiative! Launched in late February, we’ve been hungrily scouring the…
Our mission? To coach Yale-NUS students to tell the best data story they can in a data competition!
I sat down with Munirah, who is learning about the art of visualising information during her 9-month traineeship at Kontinentalist.
Outlier was a much-celebrated online conference by the Data Visualization Society (DVS) that took place from 4–8 February 2021
At the recent Outlier conference hosted by Data Visualisation Society, Kontinentalist hosted an informal video call (an “unconference”)…
Amanda was our design intern in 2018, and we welcomed her back two years later as a UX Architect! Fun fact, the animation you see on our…
When you create something, the reaction to your creation is often hard to anticipate. Upon release of our story on chilli sauces in Asia…