Greeting your data
About
Gitte - under the alias Graveelius - is a Belgian based Information Designer focussing on visualizing true impact by using a wide range of media & technology. Always striving to keep an ongoing clear conversation with the human being.
Their practice can methodologically be found on the crossing of Data Visualization and Storytelling, Design Research & Co-creation and Creative Impact. Graphic design supports the basis of their work.
Graveelius is balancing it's time between Creating, Teaching & Learning. This way, skills are aligned with today's relevance.
Some points of interest:
Design System Thinking
Information Visualization
Design Research
Graphic & Interaction Design
Creative Activism
Speculative Design
Co-creation methodologies
Data & Arts
International partnerships
Projects
The project starts from the concept of “Communal Fruit Trees” and the ideas of the “commons”:
it wants to give private lands and (semi) public lands a redistributive/solidarity function.
Citizens and companies of city Ghent are responsible for the planting and maintenance of the fruit trees and shrubs, but they do offer the fruits for the benefit of all Ghent residents. Participants are therefore not only committed to caring for the trees and shrubs, but also to sharing the proceeds, for example through harvest festivals or picking moments.
Visual style and materials for the new artroute àmare 2023
Work Experience
Mentoring the International Field Trip for the students of Design For Impact at LUCA School of Arts Ghent.
Freelance information designer focussing on visualizing Impact through graphic design, dataviz & storytelling
Communitymanager of the Student Freelancers in Belgium Facebook group.
Domestic Data Streamers was founded with a simple idea: That the world couldn’t be understood without numbers, but it wouldn’t be understood with numbers alone. Domestic believes that any meaningful interchange of information between people needs to carry emotions, experiences to create knowledge or change.
Domestic combines the ancient power of storytelling with data to create participatory projects that build community and educate, to craft campaigns that communicate, products that truly connect and exhibitions that make people feel and think with more empathy.
-> domesticstreamers.com/about/
During my internship at Domestic I had the opportunity to work on a social-media campaign for Unicef EAP among other things. Trying to communicate the data > results they gathered in their annual rapport towards the younger audience on social-media. Translating data into playfull and comprehensible visualizations.
What happens when you combine your soft evening walk or maybe a long city hike with the nicest spots generated by citizens in Brussels? You get the Walk By Brussels web-application. Imagined by and made for Brussels habitants during the #brusselsHacksTheCrisis project, organised by Smart City Brussels and developed by 5 Osoc-students. A new motivation to get outdoors without the need of leaving the city.
As an intern at TMW, I attended the set of some advertising campaigns. Through observation I came in contact with new skills such as video editing and filming. In addition, I was commissioned to design a social media post. Next to my observation within the company, TMW is a dynamic and centrally located company in London, which gave me a lot of new interests.
Graphic Design intern for a week
Volunteering
On the 16th of april, 2022 we went for 3 weeks with a 11 students from LUCA School of Arts to the Greenside Design Center in Johannesburg. We joined the students from GDC to work together on SDG* investing projects for the city. (*sustainable development goals)
To guarantee the visibility and funding of the South Intensive Project, we started a crowdfunding with the project participants.
Relevant information about the project was equivalent to a contribution to the funding. We provided three different channels on which the project was shared. On the one hand, the "SDG* Your Year" calendar was designed in which monthly tips on the sustainable development goals were shared in the form of 'to do's'. In addition, our learnings could be followed live on the @lucagoessouth Instagram page. Finally, the 'Stories From Joburg' event was organized in which we shared how we have used our creativity to make an impact, but also what impact this project has had on us and how we will take it into the future.
'Icomed': iconen zeggen meer dan woorden.
'Icomed' neemt drempels weg zonder dat er een woord gezegd of geschreven wordt. Het online iconografische afsprakenformulier.
'Icomed': iconen zeggen meer dan woorden. 'Icomed' neemt drempels weg zonder dat er een woord gezegd of geschreven wordt. Het online iconografische afsprakenformulier.
Education
Activiteiten en verenigingen:
- Together with my D4i colleagues, we will be organizing a creative activism project for the very new Design Fest Gent.
- Working on a new data-installation/exhibition about communicating the impact of circularity in raw/building materials. This project will be launched in function of the Ghent-based company: Circômplex
- Attending the 3-day Futures Literacy Bootcamp of futurist Maya Van Leemput.
- Global Minds (VLIR-UOS) in Johannesburg (3 weeks)
Cijfer: Cum Laude
Masterthesis: Concepts of Hybridity in Classification [through visual exploration of organizational systems]
Masterproject: In Search of Hybridity
Cijfer: Magna Cum Laude
Activiteiten en verenigingen: Chairwoman/Student representative of the LUCA student participation council
Bachelor of Visual Arts option Media & Information Design