Data visualization is one of the most precious applications of design for social and political purposes, and a powerful tool for journalists and historians. In this episode, Anjali Singhvi, senior staff editor for spatial investigations at The New York Times, discusses with Paola how she deploys design in her reporting practice to highlight facts, resolve ambiguous narrations, and provide readers with the tools to uncover truth. In her work, Anjali unravels details and reconstructs events both recent––a fatal fire in the Bronx, for instance, or apartment building collapses in southern Turkey or on the Florida coast––and past, as she and her team did in 2023 by giving a first comprehensive visual account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1923. An expert in forensic 3D reconstructions of crime scenes and digital investigations, Anjali is keen to explain her background, the role of investigative visual journalism, and to describe a typical New York Times investigation––the process and the research involved, from journalists and institutions to citizen reporting and user-generated data. You can find images of Anjali’s work on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like Anjali, are at the forefront of positive change.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.