Dario Rodighiero is a designer working at the intersection of digital humanities, information design, and science communication. His practice turns open-access archives into visual form, opening them to interpretation and understanding. Two strands organize the work. The first is the mapping of science, developed through organizational charts in Mapping Affinities and extended to artificial intelligence in Grounding AI Map. The second engages cultural heritage, with projects such as Surprise Machines and the Map of the Analogous City. Across both strands, knowledge design operates as a research methodology: a way of seeing, and a means of experimenting with how inquiry takes form.
At the University of Groningen, he is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the interdisciplinary faculty Campus Fryslân. There he coordinates the minor Data Wise: Data Science in Society and teaches data and visual literacy in the Bachelor's program Data Science and Society. He maintains active collaborations with Harvard University as a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a principal at metaLAB (at) Harvard/Berlin/Basel, a research and teaching center dedicated to experimenting with digital technologies in the arts and humanities. He is co-chair of VISAP, the IEEE VIS Arts Program, for the 2025 and 2026 editions, in Vienna and Boston.
Dario holds a PhD from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he attended the doctoral program in Architecture and Sciences of the City. He held research and teaching positions at MIT, the European Commission, Paris-Sorbonne University, and Sciences Po — including the médialab, where his engagement with digital platforms as tools for philosophical inquiry took shape — and was visiting professor at FU Berlin and Paris Nanterre University. Dario lectured at venues such as CERN and Ars Electronica, and exhibited his work at MAXXI and the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting a sustained commitment to public engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.