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  C.A.M. de Gaetano (Carlo)

Telephone:
0628041169
Email:
c.a.m.de.gaetano@hva.nl
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Postal address:
Postbus 51,1000 AB Amsterdam
Room number:
04A09
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Carlo is designer and researcher at the Visual Methodologies Collective and digital transformation designer at the Digital Society School. He focuses on data visualisation for social and cultural research.

Research

Carlo is interested in visual content analysis, images as data and the mapping of social issues. He is currently doing research on how climate change is represented and discussed online, by experimenting with different techniques to capture digital traces and visualise images in groups.

Motivation

Carlo thinks it is important to use his designer skills to support the research of socially relevant issues. He believes that data visualisation should make information more accessible to different publics and increase data literacy. His study has to do with visual methods for the research of sensitive and politically charged topics, striving for transparency and inclusiveness.

Current research projects

Since fall 2018 Carlo has been working as project leader and coach at the Digital Society School on different projects about climate change solutions, climate activism and climate misinformation.

Carlo is also working on the project Climate Futures, an experiment in (machine) learning from climate fiction in literature, indigineous stories, visual arts, and Hollywood cinema.

Current educational activities

At the Digital Society School Carlo gives regularly workshops and lectures on data curation, data visualisation and digital methods of research, designed for an international and multidisciplinary learning community.

Carlo is responsible for developing and teaching the course in Issue Mapping for sustainable fashion, at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), together with his colleague Sabine Niederer, where he also supervises theses in the MA Fashion Enterprise Creation.

Education

He obtained a Bachelor Degree (2009) and a Master Degree (2013) in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano, focusing on data analysis and curation, information visualization and issue mapping (master thesis: “Genealogies of new religious movements in Italy: a cosmography”).

In 2018, Carlo completed a professional training course in Digital and Analog Photography at CFP Bauer Milano.

Previous activities

Since 2012 Carlo has been participating as a guest designer and researcher to all the Summer and Winter Schools and several data sprints at the Digital Methods Initiative (UvA). From 2014 to 2018 Carlo collaborated with the Citizen Data Lab in the data curation and visualisation for different research projects. From 2007 to 2018 he worked as a freelance information designer between Milan and Amsterdam, collaborating in many research and teaching activities at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), DensityDesign Lab (Politecnico di Milano) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

  • Who is included?: A Mapping of Inclusive Fashion on Instagram
    de Gaetano, C. A. M., & Niederer, S. M. C. (2023). Who is included?: A Mapping of Inclusive Fashion on Instagram. In D. Reynders, & M. G. Cyr (Eds.), FASHION+ : Inclusive articulations and practices in design, communication & development (pp. 112-129). Academic & Scientific Publishers (ASP) .
  • The Urban Belonging Photo App: A toolkit for studying place attachments with digital and participatory methods
    Madsen, A. K., Burgos-Thorsen, S., De Gaetano, C., Ehn, D., Groen, M., Niederer, S., Norsk, K., & Simonsen, T. (2023). The Urban Belonging Photo App: A toolkit for studying place attachments with digital and participatory methods. Methodological Innovations, 16(3), 292-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991231185351
  • Prompting for biodiversity: visual research with generative AI
    Colombo, G. (Designer), De Gaetano, C. (Designer), & Niederer, S. (Author). (2023). Prompting for biodiversity: visual research with generative AI. Web publication or website, The Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/PromptingForBiodiversity
  • Floating Futures
    De Gaetano, C. (Photographer). (2023). Floating Futures. Web publication or website, Visual Methodologies Collective. https://visualmethodologies.org/floating-futures/
  • Design voor dialoog over zeespiegelstijging
    Verouden, N. W. (Photographer), Dockett, A. C. (Photographer), Niederer, S. M. C. (Photographer), de Gaetano, C. A. M. (Photographer), & Bessembinder, J. J. E. (Photographer). (2023). Design voor dialoog over zeespiegelstijging. Exhibition
  • Making Waves
    Andreatta, I. (Other), Armin, J. (Other), Cull Ó Maoilearca , L. (Other), De Gaetano, C. (Designer), Dockett, A. (Designer), Fernández, M. (Designer), Groene, M. (Other), Niederer, S. (Ed.) (Editor), Pinheiro, F. (Other), Prins, L. (Other), Rege Turo, L. (Other), Spierenburg, K. (Designer), & de Vries, P. (Other). (2023). Making Waves. Artefact, Visual Methodologies Collective. https://flowpaper.com/online-pdf-viewer/?theme=dark&pdf=https://visualmethodologies.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/makingwaves1_apr_2023.pdf&wp-hosted=1&title=&header=&singlepage=auto&thumbs=1&modified=2306141208#page=1
  • Queer as the Ocean
    de Gaetano, C. A. M. (Designer). (2023). Queer as the Ocean. Exhibition https://issuu.com/tolhuistuin/docs/warming_up_kunst_final_4
  • Urban belonging toolkit
    Groen, M. N. (Photographer), de Gaetano, C. A. M. (Photographer), & Niederer, S. M. C. (Photographer). (2022). Urban belonging toolkit. Software
  • Doing Research Online (How-to Guides)
    Groen, M., & De Gaetano, C. (2022). Doing Research Online (How-to Guides): How to Do Locative Mapping and Data Collection Using Smartphones. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529609318
  • A Rising Ocean
    de Gaetano, C. A. M., Niederer, S. M. C., & Pearce, W. (2022). A Rising Ocean: Mapping the imagination and presentation of sea-level rise on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2022ARisingOcean
  • Like a virus
    de Zeeuw, D., Campagna, T., Maragkou, E., Lust, J., & de Gaetano, C. (2022). Like a virus. In C. Arkenbout, & L. Scherz (Eds.), Critical Meme Reader II: Memetic Tacticality (pp. 118-137). (INC Reader; Vol. 16), (Critical Meme Reader; Vol. 2). Institute of Network Cultures.
  • All Gone: Co-authoring climate imaginaries with AI
    De Gaetano, C. (Designer), Dockett, A. (Designer), & Niederer, S. (Author). (2021). All Gone: Co-authoring climate imaginaries with AI. Exhibition, Visual Methodologies Collective. https://www.artistsforplants.com/alberoni
  • Google Images, climate change and the disappearance of humans
    Pearce, W., & De Gaetano, C. (2021). Google Images, climate change and the disappearance of humans. Diseña, 19, 3-8. Article 3. http://revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/33173
  • Discovering climate futures
    de Gaetano, C. (Author). (2021). Discovering climate futures. Web publication or website, Visual Methodologies Collective.
  • Making climate futures
    de Gaetano, C. (Author). (2021). Making climate futures. Web publication or website, Visual Methodologies Collective.
  • Making sustainability work
    Bogers, L., Kloppenburg, I., Maldini, I., Nachtigall, T., Oskamp, O., Vlaanderen, A., de Wit, A., van Woerden, A., van Zeijl, M., Niederer, S. (Ed.), & de Gaetano, C. (Ed.) (2021). Making sustainability work: critical making in collaboration with nature. Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
  • Mapping microplastics
    Bardelli, F., De Gaetano, C., Groen, M., Meys, W., & Niederer, S. (2021). Mapping microplastics: hybrid workshop wrap up, Visual Methodologies Collective. Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
  • Turning to the Birds
    Niederer, S., Dockett, A., De Gaetano, C., & Clarke, K. (Eds.) (2021). Turning to the Birds: Episode 5: Machine learning from cli-fi, listening with Sabine Niederer, Andy Dockett & Carlo De Gaetano. In J. Boomgaard, K. Clarke, & N. Scholts (Eds.), Hinterlands: How to do transdisciplinarity? (pp. 46-59). ARIAS.
  • Confronting bias in the online representation of pregnancy
    Bogers, L., Niederer, S., Bardelli, F., & De Gaetano, C. (2020). Confronting bias in the online representation of pregnancy. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(5-6), 1037-1059. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520938606
  • Climate Communication
    De Gaetano, C. (2020). Climate Communication. In E. Beauxis-Aussalet, C. De Gaetano, A. Hassan, W. Meys, & M. Riphagen (Eds.), Data-Driven Transformation: Towards a future where data enables positive transformations (pp. 47-89). Digital Society School. https://digitalsocietyschool.org/data-driven-transformation/
  • Dutch political Instagram
    Colombo, G., & De Gaetano, C. (2020). Dutch political Instagram: Junk news, follower ecologies and artificial amplification. In R. Rogers, & S. Niederer (Eds.), The Politics of Social Media Manipulation (pp. 147-168). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvs5.7
  • The visual vernacular of climate change on Twitter (2016-19)
    De Gaetano, C., & Pearce, W. (2019). The visual vernacular of climate change on Twitter (2016-19).
  • Twitter's retort to Trump: before and after the Paris announcement
    De Gaetano, C., & Pearce, W. (2019). Twitter's retort to Trump: before and after the Paris announcement.
  • Using computer vision to see Google’s visual vernacular of climate change (2008-19)
    Pearce, W., Colombo, G., & De Gaetano, C. (2019). Using computer vision to see Google’s visual vernacular of climate change (2008-19).
  • Visual vernaculars of climate change
    De Gaetano, C., & Pearce, W. (2019). Visual vernaculars of climate change.
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