How do we stay human in the age of AI? In this issue of notes from the equator, we reflect on the effect of technology on our lives. 🌌 Check it out 💌: kawan.kontinentalist.com/design-beyon...

While AI can generate data summaries and insights, it often misses what matters most: context, nuance, and the human touch that makes information meaningful. That’s why great data storytelling still needs a human behind the wheel. ✨️

As the world looks to COP30 this month, we’ve been thinking about how hard it can be to truly care about climate change when the conversations around it often feel distant. Yet, we feel its effects daily—the days are unbearably hot, the nights less cool, and the weather more unpredictable. (1/7)🧵

What does authenticity look like in the age of algorithms? Check out our newsletter's latest issue 💌 kawan.kontinentalist.com/what-creates...

Kpop artists frequently release albums that come with randomised merchandise. However, this means that fans often buy several of the same albums just to collect all the merchandise. Unwanted albums are then thrown out, resulting in literal piles of waste on the streets.

Patchar Duangklad is a Visual and Data Journalist who’s the co-founder and business developer at Punch Up, a Bangkok-based data storytelling studio, and WeVis, their civic technology arm. Today, we’re looking back at our interview with Patchar in 2023: kawan.kontinentalist.com/meet-the-com...

I am so entraced by @kontinentalist.bsky.social way of publishing. It's engaging, told through data visualisation as much as the narrative form. For example, this used gameplay elements: kontinentalist.com/stories/popu...

🔍 In some of the world’s toughest environments, Asia’s data journalists are finding new ways to keep the truth visible – even when data is scarce or censored. Meet @indiaspend.com, @kontinentalist.bsky.social & Punch Up in GIJN’s #AsiaFocus series:

Track your projects’ impact and ensure you’re making the difference you want to see.

Lapis supports customisation and collaboration, and works across multiple skill levels and domains.

Today, we are lifting the waitlist and bringing you the Open Beta version. Blend text, data, and visuals together with our exciting new features.

Made by award-winning editorial studio @kontinentalist.bsky.social, Lapis advocates for craft, collaboration, and community. We help users tell their own stories, work alongside their teams, and build meaningful connections with other practitioners.

🚀 Exciting news: Lapis is now in Open Beta! Built by our team at Kontinentalist to make data storytelling accessible for everyone in Asia and beyond. Check it out → lapis-story.com

The Cost of Transitioning to Clean Energy Asia holds vast nickel, cobalt & lithium reserves key to the green transition, but mining is often harmful. @kontinentalist.bsky.social dives into impacts in 🇵🇭 & 🇮🇩 using @FairFinanceAsia data & an interactive quiz. https://twp.ai/1MQB1Hv

Aghnia Adzkia is a Visual and Data Journalist who’s passionate about making data journalism accessible for the general public. Get to know her experience as the founder of Journocoders Indonesia, a community of data enthusiasts based in Jakarta! 👩‍💻 kawan.kontinentalist.com/meet-the-com...

The infrastructures required for renewable energy, such as solar panels and electric vehicles, are built using raw materials known collectively as “transition minerals”. How much do you know about transition minerals? Try out this quiz and see how you fare! 👇 (1/10)

Last month, during an internal Learning Day, Aishah asked the team, “Who here thinks of themselves as creative? The kind of person who can come up with ideas easily?” Out of 13 people, only Munirah identified as ✨creative✨.

We’ve just unveiled 𝑨 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈, a new 6x12m artwork and data storytelling project at the Singapore Art Museum! The work explores how, why, and where we walk, through an exploration of desire paths in Singapore.

We’ve just unveiled 𝑨 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈, a new 6x12m artwork and data storytelling project at the Singapore Art Museum! The work explores how, why, and where we walk, through an exploration of desire paths in Singapore.

What if we started seeing accessibility as a practice of care embedded in every part of our lives? For our latest Meet the Community series, we sat down with Equal Dreams to reimagine accessibility in our workplaces and larger lives. kawan.kontinentalist.com/ways-of-seei...

Lim Chee Aun, a Singapore-based engineer and data viz builder, turns a simple curiosity into applications that solve people’s problems in their daily lives. Learn more about his creative process behind apps like BusRouterSG through this interview! 👇 kawan.kontinentalist.com/meet-the-com...

Our latest issue of our monthly newsletter opens us up to the diversity of human experience, and imagines a world where accessibility is a norm. Check it out 💌 kawan.kontinentalist.com/spectrum-of-...

Our reflections on a recent project we did about nature for the Singapore Art Museum. It's still on display! If you're in town, do check it out <3

Thank you @reginecabato.bsky.social for talking to us about our work, and @reutersinstitute.bsky.social for this feature! Slow journalism/news takes a more intentional practice in today's changing media landscape. We talk about how @kontinentalist.bsky.social navigates this.

Co-founder @hellopeiying.bsky.social stressed that @kontinentalist.bsky.social looks at qualitative impact over ad revenue and arbitrary readership figures. “The metric we do care about is: If people do read it, what do they do about it?” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/char...

Lovely (and well deserved) profile of @kontinentalist.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/chartin...

Arts and culture stories are close to our heart, especially projects that re-connect us to our roots. In the last five years, we’ve worked on a couple of stories centred around local knowledge and traditions, our latest being a project on Malay folktales with the Malay Heritage Centre.

What do trees say about coloniality and what we value? We recently worked on The Hidden Green, a large-scale mural artwork on trees in Singapore, which got us questioning our relationship to nature and the price we pay for modernity and planning needs. A thread of our reflections 👇 (1/7)

Everyone has that one thing that helps them get into the zone, whether it’s a strong cup of coffee, a walk around the block, or a change of scenery. We asked our team: “What helps you feel productive or get unstuck?” Now we want to hear from you, what’s your productivity trigger? Comment below!

We recently got some love for our story on cultural resistance and genocide in Gaza, winning Bronze at the Information is Beautiful Awards and Runner-Up at the New Media Writing Prize. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...

**How do we talk about those no longer here but not truly gone?** We supported The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime on an interactive story to map enforced disappearances, told through memory, resistance, and landscapes. 🌐 landscapes.globalinitiative.net

What do Singapore’s children care most about? Peace, pollution, Pokémon—and so much more. 🧸✨ We’re excited to share about our collaboration with Playeum on their latest report “What Matters to Our Children”, with support from the LEGO Group. www.playeum.com/wmtc-playeum

We recently participated in Hari Orang Pulau organised by Orang Laut Singapore! We presented Air Pasang Surut, an interactive exhibition about the first homes of Singapore’s islanders and other communities. This exhibition was co-created with Orang Laut Singapore. These were 3 things we learned 🧵

Hey Bluesky! 👋🏻 I haven’t been on here much, but let’s see if I can change that. Today I’m at the Visualizing Knowledge 2025 conference in Helsinki, organised by Aalto University. I’m here to learn and showcase my Masters degree project on Indigenous memories in Singapore ❤️

Whether you work in research, comms, advocacy, or design—data is everywhere, and it’s never neutral. It’s full of power, and how we use it matters. Here's our approach to data 👇 (1/3)

Our latest issue of our monthly newsletter, is a throwback to childhood, where play reigned and inspired moments of pleasure, rest, and spontaneity! Check it out 💌 kawan.kontinentalist.com/the-power-of...

14 June. West Coast Park. Hari Orang Pulau. See you at our interactive exhibition, Air Pasang Surut! Through participatory mapping and letter writing, we invite you to remember, share, and reflect on stories from your first homes—whether they're childhood memories or cherished routines.

This month’s issue of notes from the equator is an ode to labour, tradition, the food we eat, and the ones who came before us who made it all possible.

Modernisation has changed much of how we eat and cook today. But in many houses across Asia, traditional ways of food preparation and cooking are still alive and thriving. (1/2)

We’re rethinking what it truly means to connect people with data. Data stories are powerful, but they’re not always enough. To create deeper, more meaningful engagement, we’re expanding into other formats. (1/3)

Who gets to tell a story? Who benefits from it? And how do we move beyond just producing data stories to building something meaningful together? 🐦 (1/4)

Over the past year, we’ve been reflecting on our old mission and vision, questioning what no longer fits, and slowly shaping a direction for ourselves that better aligns with our values. 🌸 (1/4)