Speakers
Description
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 contexts. Inspired by Cybersyn’s information model, it approaches data as a re-imagined, situated, and embodied practice, using experimental visual methods—such as written annotation and collage—that move beyond traditional and familiar ways of representing information.
This session will involve collective practices of storytelling, dialogue, and creative making, foregrounding how lived experiences can be transformed into critical visual narratives of data. Drawing on alternative approaches to information, we’ll challenge dominant narratives and reveal what is often overlooked—such as the emotions behind local policies or the real impact of community services.
Working together, participants will weave personal stories with public data and media sources, creating visualisations that reframe and recontextualise our shared realities. The result will be a collective model of local issues—as a critical data visualisation—that opens up a space for reflection and offers new ways to see and shape our communities.
