Pei Ying Loh, Kontinentalist Potluck

Potluck returns for our 3rd season, and the first episode of 2022.

Pei Ying Loh is Head & Co-Founder of Kontinentalist, an organisation dedicated to telling data-driven stories about Asia.  As a collective of writers, designers, developers and data-visualisers, they tackle topics connected to Culture, Politics, People and History through various creative approaches.
Our discussion charts:
- The parallels between Pei Ying’s background in History and storytelling, and Kontinentalist’s origins
- Cartography of culture: how maps have played a pivotal role in taking readers on a journey, and building empathy for the issue at hand
- Bridging the gap between research and the public: with much of the work being cause-driven, we discuss the need to turn heavy data into digestible stories for a wider audience 
- Asia misunderstood: the motivations that lie behind debunking myths and being sensitive to the region’s data and cultural contexts
- Data-visualisation: lessons on what makes it effective,  and avoiding the trap of style-over-substance 

Plus Drago and I share our views on how brands are approaching the War in Ukraine.


Check-out some of the stories we discuss:
http://v1.kontinentalist.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/stories/the-rohingya-in-myanmar-a-refugee-crisis-at-sea/
https://bri.kontinentalist.com/
https://kontinentalist.com/stories/a-cultural-history-of-han-chinese-names-for-girls-and-boys-in-china
https://kontinentalist.com/stories/sexual-assault-and-abuse-in-singapore-need-more-than-the-law
www.potluckpodcast.asia/