Visible Data is an international project about how culture is financed and was initiated by the Open Design Studio (Bratislava) in collaboration with the Institute for Felxible Cultures and Tecnologies NAPON (Novi Sad). The lecture will bring a closer look on the objectives and critical approaches of the project which was developed as a reflexion of the invisibility of financing of culture and a lack of culturep oliticy in Central and Southeast Europe. It shows examples of activities and design methods that were chosen to bring this issue closer to the public and questions how information design can create critical reflextion and can be used to fathom a public discussion. The project was initiated by a network of organizations: Mediamatic (Amsterdam), Momeline (Budapest) and STGU (Katowice). www.opendesignstudio.net
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