The Venice Lagoon Climate Change Dashboard as a tool for capacity building for local populations

Among the many visualisation technologies, dashboards enable extensive exploration of data and its relationships. They enable the reporting and display of static data, historical series, and dynamic (continuously updated) data with a wide range of visualisation options. Therefore, in today's knowledge-based society, dashboards are extremely useful tools for both raising public awareness and activating accountability and/or decision support systems (or planning decision support systems). It is therefore essential to cultivate a data culture and provide useful insights for approaching these tools and interpreting the data they produce. The paper proposes a novel and imaginative method for engaging with data and its visualisations by incorporating analogue techniques. This approach encourages users to interact with data in tangible ways, fostering deeper understanding and new perspectives even when specific technical skills and expertise are lacking.