London, UK, 2014

Our first design sprint was a two-day event supporting human rights organisations working in the Middle East.

LONDON BY THE NUMBERS

Applications
received

45

Nationalities represented

10

Value of pro bono
work donated

$30k

OVERVIEW

Our first-ever sprint was organised in partnership with Small Media and the VISUALIZEDio data and design conference. It was hosted at Waterhouse, a canal-side venue managed by the Shoreditch Trust.

Creatives from across Europe joined in the sprint, supporting four civil society organisations representing Iran, Yemen, and the broader Middle East to create data-driven prototypes on juvenile executions, life under drones, cybercrime laws, and wrongful imprisonment.

MEET THE CSOS

Alkarama Foundation is a Switzerland-based NGO defending the victims of human rights violations in the Arab world.

The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center promotes human rights awareness in Iran through education and information.

The Center for Supporters of Human Rights was founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi.

Social Media Exchange is a Lebanon-based media advocacy and development organisation.

PROJECTS

Featured

Omid Memorial

Iran has executed thousands of victims of all ages and all walks of life, many of whom have been silenced.

Cataloguing Digital Rights

This project catalogues media and communications laws that violate international human rights standards.

MENTORS

Stefanie Posavec
Is a designer, artist, and author exploring playful, friendly approaches to communicating data and information to all ages and audiences. Her clients include MoMA, Centre Pompidou, V&A, Wellcome Collection and more.

Miriam Quick
Miriam is a data journalist specialising in information visualisation. She find facts and data, digest them and build them into compelling stories. Her clients include BBC, New York Times, Wired UK, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and more.

Maral Pourkazemi
Maral is an information designer focused on creating and supporting socially impactful projects. She is a self-styled 'Design Activist'. She was the first person to visualise the Iranian Internet and she runs a design studio in London called Maddthing.

Pierre La Baume
Pierre focuses on UX, information design and visualisation. He's a designer at the interaction design studio MING Labs Berlin and has a real talent for simplifying digital products and creating meaningful (data) visualisations.