Information+ 2025 Workshops

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...

This workshop invites participants to rethink data collection—not just as a technical task, but as an opportunity to spark meaningful conversations with people. We will approach data collection design through an interactive, participatory, and purpose-driven lens. We’ll begin with a brief introductory session, featuring a short talk that explores different approaches and examples of how data...

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...