Over spring break, the Brown Institute dispersed, giving talks, leading trainings, and participating in labs. It began at NICAR on Friday, March 9, where Mark Hansen co-led a workshop on how to find stories in data through visualization. In collaboration with Alberto Cairo, Olga Pierce and Rachael Tatman, Professor Hansen taught core concepts of a data interview, through
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Magic Grant Office Hours Available at Columbia
UPDATE: OFFICE HOURS ARE BOOKED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE GRANT CALL CYCLE. To accommodate additional questions and meetings between applicants and Brown Institute staff, we will be holding open All Staff office hours on Wednesday, April 4 and Friday, April 6 from 1-5pm at Columbia. The Brown Institute at Columbia is hosting office hours starting
‘What Went Wrong?’ Launches
Two years ago, the Brown Institute, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation, supported the project What Went Wrong? for a prototyping phase following Photography Expanded Lab. Led by Peter DiCampo and Joe Wheeler, the project has just launched and we’re excited to share their progress! Our What Went Wrong? reporting project has been live in
The Brown Institute is Hiring!
The Brown Institute is proud to announce two new positions available on the Columbia University side of the institute. The first position offered is a Research Scholar who will be brought on to conduct their own “creative research” that imagines such new kinds of storytelling, and to support the Institute’s research and grants. This person
Announcing the 2018-19 Magic Grant Call for Proposals
The Brown Institute is excited to announce its 2018-19 Magic Grant Call for Proposals! Since its founding six years ago, the Brown Institute has funded over 40 projects. An open repository for data on the Panamanian government. A hotspot detector for social media feeds, highlighting important stories in a city. A tool to auto-generate rough
Rosalie Yu featured in The Verge
In an in-depth profile on Rosalie Yu, Creative Technologist at the Brown Institute, The Verge highlights A Ritual of Habits, Yu’s latest work. Over the course of two years, Yu cataloged images of everything sweet in her diet, turning sugary confections into digital memories. Sugar is representative of physical and moral decay, but the desserts are
Join us for Base Camp 2018!
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation invites you to apply to the Media Innovation Base Camp taking place on March 3-4, 2018 at Stanford University. The Media Innovation Base Camp offers a great starting point for entrepreneurial students who want to explore the interplay between story and technology. All travel and lodging expenses will be
Dark Inquiry Launches Bail Bloc Project
The Brown Institute announces the launch of the latest project from the Dark Inquiry Magic Grant team. Bail Bloc starts with the premise that cash bail streamlines mass incarceration by preventing low-income, usually people of color, from exercising their right to a fair trial. The team writes that “prosecutors and judges work in concert to coerce low-income people
Points Unknown Hits the Classroom
The Brown Institute, Center for Spatial Research, and faculty from the Journalism School are delighted to announce the launch of Points Unknown, a training module and course designed to teach journalists and architects how to use spatial data to tell stories. The first portion of Points Unknown is a 5-week module for students of the