Afghanistan20 (Accurat studio)


Afghanistan20 is an online project developed for the Italian NGO EMERGENCY: it reflects on the 20 (and counting) years of war in Afghanistan from the perspective of its victims and those doctors and volunteers who help them. The extensive archive collects photographs, data, and first-hand stories on the three Emergency hospitals and many First Aid Points spread in the country.

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Bar charts with the number of war victims curated by EMERGENCY from 2001 to June 2021.

Initial data visualization scroll collecting the war victims curated by EMERGENCY, with additional information on its activities per year.

The website is structured with four chapters containing each contribution from Italian and foreign journalists and a long-form with the stories from the field. The detailed report is enriched by intense photographs and interactive data visualizations (from mobile devices).

The project was meant to be published in early September, right after the withdrawal of the American troops. We all know that this decision only led to increasing political instability, facilitating instead a rapid takeover by the Taliban forces. Moreover, Gino Strada, the founder of EMERGENCY, passed away during those days (August 13). The events undeniably affected the development of the website to the point that, to safeguard the identities of the Emergency staff and patients, we had to cover in black their photos.

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Some photos have been obscured to safeguard identities of EMERGENCY patients and staff.

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EMERGENCY has been present in Afghanistan since 1999. Its work is based on neutrality: humanitarian intervention is not aimed at favouring any side in an armed conflict. EMERGENCY's continues to stand by the people of Afghanistan, even with the worsening of the situation.

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The project was developed during my internship at Accurat studio (Milan). The design of the project started in June and lasted three intense months. The data were shared by Emergency, already organized per topics and relevance: Accurat took care of the data visualization, creative direction, information architecture, and design of the website, considering its primary use from mobile devices. My intervention was mainly related to the data visualizations, from early sketches to final exports (with the accurate supervision of Irene).

Client
EMERGENCY

Design and development
Giovanni, Irene, Marco, Stefano, Ivan, Sabrina (Accurat)

Year
2021

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