Participants in this workshop will experiment with different ways of visualizing data on the energy girls, women, and those who menstruate put into the preparation, management, and concealment of having a period. Energy, in this context, is defined as physical, emotional, and psychological energy that individuals put forth from the moment of their first period until their last. This energy is...
This participatory workshop invites you into a Pluriversal Civic Encounter—a collaborative space that celebrates the many ways data can be experienced and expressed.
This workshop seeks to connect the innovative and committed spirit of Chile’s 1970s Project Cybersyn with today’s local community issues, inviting participants to reflect and explore the challenges of our times, in our own...
Data sonification, the practice of representing data in the form of sound and music, is a unique and compelling method of expressing information. Sonification allows us to hear patterns in complex data, and consume information in a new and interesting way. In this workshop, participants will learn about data sonification as a concept, listen to several examples (with particular focus on the...
The goal of this workshop is to teach attendees basic conscious and responsible, strategies for motivating viewers towards action, and some compositional design principles to create information graphics for grassroots/political movements. This session will begin with a short presentation with visual examples. It will then move into some quick drafting games to practice basic design techniques....
This workshop addresses the urgent challenge of urban decarbonisation by exploring interdisciplinary methods for visualising and communicating building-level energy performance data. With cities responsible for over 70% of global CO₂ emissions, there is a growing need for integrated approaches that bring together spatial data infrastructure, energy modelling, visual communication, and civic...
This collaborative quilting workshop uses physical making techniques to understand complex data more deeply and create a shared artifact representing local data on energy usage as it has changed over time. We will discuss the historical (and extant) role of fiber arts in representing data, often in the communication of science as well as for social and political causes. Then, participants will...
