Episode 23: Giorgia Lupi - Harmonizing life and data through design

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Show Notes:

• Data-driven design firm Accurat
• Data humanism
• When she realized design was going to be a part of her life (07:00)
• A ’new chapter’ in her life to fuse data and design (07:30)
• What teachers told her that changed her (08:00)
• Discovery of information design (09:00)
• Rules versus limitations (10:15)
  • Rules as catalyzers of creativity
  • Pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone
• Phases of dealing with COVID-19 (13:00)
• Think about yourself in 2-3 years - who do you want to remember yourself to be? (13:45)
• Daily practices (14:15)
  • How to be in touch with what makes you feel better (15:30)
  • Be patient with yourself
• What she does when she feels uncreative (16:30)
• Saying no to things (19:00)
  • Setting rules for yourself
  • Decide who it is that you are
• Maria Popova and Brain Pickings (23:15)
• Design vs. data science (25:00)
• Data as a way to analyze oneself (25:15)
• Design firm IDEO and user-centered design (28:30)
• Antidisciplinary (28:40)
• What to avoid when starting a new project (29:15)
• The tension between familiarity and the unknown (30:15)
• The energy you put out (32:20)
• The value of new creative environments (33:00)
• Pentagram (33:20)
• Not the next ’thing,’ the next ‘chapter’ (35:00)
• Using a language is a way to train the brain (37:00)
• MIT Media Lab (38:30)
• Friends in space piece (42:00)
• Lightning Round (44:00):
  • Book: The image of the city Kevin Lynch
  • Passion that set her path: playing the piano
  • Latest passion: Romantic relationship
  • Screwed up: Relationship with her father and time
• Find Giorgia online
  • http://giorgialupi.com/
  • Twitter
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Giorgia’s list