About
Calibro is the development and design lead of Digital Benin since 2022. They developed the archive, interactive oral history videos and internal software tools in the first year after joining Digital Benin. Calibro continues to develop open source software and research outcomes and representations in collaboration with the researcher and are responsible for the overall front- and backend development of Digital Benin.
Calibro is a design studio founded by Matteo Azzi and Giorgio Uboldi based in Milan focused on tailoring visual tools to explore and visualize data, complex information and archives. Calibro conducts research and teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven, UNIRSM Design, ISIA Urbino, Cfp Bauer and Scuola Politecnica di Design.
Digital Benin collates digital material from institutions, and some of this material is inherently colonial and contains words, terms and phrases that are inaccurate, derogatory and harmful towards African and African diasporic communities. Catalogue transcriptions, book titles, exhibition titles and museum titles may contain harmful terms. We recognise the potential for the material to cause physical and mental distress as well as evoke strong emotions. Owing to the scale of the collection’s data, a process to implement sensitive-content warnings in the displayed data is still incomplete. The material within the catalogue does not represent Digital Benin’s views. Digital Benin maintains a strong anti-colonial, anti-racist position and affirms its support for centring the humanity of historically marginalised and disenfranchised communities. Read more about the background of this statement here