Information+ Conference 2025
Interdisciplinary practices in
information design and visualization
14—16 November, in Boston, MA
Information+ is a biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners in information design and data visualization to explore shared questions and challenges in these rapidly changing fields. We aim to provoke rich, interdisciplinary discourse on how information representation engages within social, political and environmental contexts.
Information+ 2025 will be held in-person in Boston, USA, between November 14–16, hosted by Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, and Design (CAMD) and MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning through the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) and Morningside Academy of Design (MAD). CAMD, LCAU, and MAD actively promote interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research in information design, data visualization, and related fields.
This in-person event seeks to significantly foster community building and interdisciplinary exchange. Info+ 2025 continues the effort from previous convenings.
Information+ 2016 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver Information+ 2018 University of Applied Sciences Potsdam Information+ 2021 Virtual Information+ 2023 University of Edinburgh
Info+ 2025 seeks submissions that embrace critical insights, provocations, theories, practices, and experiences within information design and data visualization and their applications. Design practitioners are encouraged to submit, alongside contributors from the humanities, sciences, and other interdisciplinary fields, representing both academic and non-academic perspectives.
The conference has three types of contributions: Presentations, Workshops & Activities, and Exhibition Pieces. We invite proposals from all relevant fields and areas of professional practice, research, and pedagogy. Detailed information links and submissions will open for Information+ in April, 2025. These topics may include, among others:
General Topics in Information Design and Visualization:
- Ethical considerations
- Design processes
- Education
- Justice and equity
- Environmental sustainability
- Accessibility and disability justice
- Modalities of data representation (e.g., touch, sound, taste)
- Interdisciplinary practices
- Empathy and joy
Domain-Specific Applications of Design and Visualization:
- Collective futures
- Indigenous knowledge systems
- Social and political issues
- Environment and climate action
- Health and wellbeing
- Cultural collections and museums
- Digital humanities
- Data journalism
- Emerging technology
- Advances and trends in information design
While contributions for presentations and workshops & activities will explore a broad range of the themes above, Info+ 2025’s exhibition theme is energy. energy signifies much more than the contentious ways we power our homes, workspaces, and ourselves. It refers to capacity, strength, expression, dynamism, efficiency, flow, and passion. Amidst democratic erosion and polarization, energy can also represent the shared momentum we build together to uphold rights, nurture inclusive political organizing, and envision thriving, sustainable futures in harmony with our planet. Information designers situate energy within an array of contexts, including the topics listed below and more. At this critical moment in time, when the urgency of information design production and critique has never been greater, we convene Info+ 2025 with the theme energy to also highlight the vitality and ingenuity of our community. Information designers situate energy within an array of contexts, including the topics listed below and more. At this critical moment in time, when the urgency of information design production and critique has never been greater, we convene Info+ 2025 with the theme energy to also highlight the vitality and ingenuity of our community.
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Conference Organizers
Information+ 2025 is made possible through the help and support of many people and partnering organizations.
Conference Chairs
Pedro Cruz, Northeastern University
Sarah Williams,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Chairs
Catherine D’Ignazio,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Crystal Lee,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arvind Satyanarayan,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Skye Morét, Northeastern University
Workshop & Activity Chairs
Rahul Bhargava, Northeastern University
Laura Perovich, Northeastern University
Exhibition Chairs
Alberto Meouchi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Design Chairs
Brockett Horne, Boston University
Todd Linkner, Northeastern University
Kate Terrado, Northeastern University
Student Chairs
Areti Kotsoni,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jane Adams, Northeastern University
Supporters Chairs
Paolo Ciuccarelli, Northeastern University
John Ochsendorf,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diversity Scholarship Chairs
Eric Robsky Huntley,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara Castro, ESDI-UERJ