Poster

Interdisciplinary practices in
information design and visualization
14–16 November 2025
Boston, MA USA

 

Schedule & Program

Keynote Speakers

Bronwen Robertson
Bronwen Robertson
Data4Change
Bronwen Robertson is one of the co-founders of Data4Change. For more than a decade she has worked alongside human rights organisations worldwide, developing community-led approaches to data and storytelling that resist extractive practices. With a background spanning research, technology, and advocacy, she has published widely on the role of culture and creativity in social change. Bronwen is committed to equity, collaboration, and to building data practices that centre the people too often excluded from data yet most affected by the decisions it drives.
Kennedy Elliott
Kennedy Elliott
The New York Times
Kennedy joins us from The New York Times, where she is an editor on the Graphics desk focusing on political coverage. She previously worked at National Geographic, where she led a team of visual journalists who created digital graphics, and The Washington Post, where she was a graphics editor. Her work centers on explanatory visual journalism: designing charts, maps and other graphics that help readers make sense of complex political and social issues. Over the past decade, she has guided coverage ranging from U.S. elections and the administration to environmental and scientific topics. Kennedy is passionate about the role of visuals in public understanding and about editing as a craft of clarity, collaboration and informational storytelling.
Lauren Klein
Lauren Klein
Emory University
Lauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University where she directs the Digital Humanities Lab and the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Her research bridges data science, AI ethics, and American literature and culture, with attention to questions of gender and race. She is the author of Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020, with Catherine D’Ignazio) and An Archive of Taste (Minnesota, 2020). Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Tanvi Sharma, retells the history of data visualization alongside the histories of colonialism and slavery.
Tanvi Sharma
Tanvi Sharma
Designer
Tanvi is a design technologist working at the intersection of data, aesthetics, and the humanities. She is a Designer at Emory University's Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute, and co-author of Data by Design: A History in Five Charts (MIT Press, 2026). Previously, she worked at Pentagram, Public Policy Lab, and Spotify.She is based in Brooklyn with her two cats.

 

 

Friday, November 14, 2025 (MIT)

Registration opens at MIT
Workshops
Coffee break
Workshops
Lunch
Workshops
Coffee break
Workshops
Opening Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keynote: Bronwen Robertson Moderated by Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Exhibition opening and reception

Saturday, November 15, 2025 (Northeastern)

Registration opens at Northeastern University
Opening Ben Knapp — Dean of the Collge of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
CAMD's Dean Distinguished Lecturer: Lauren Klein and Tanvi Sharma Moderated by Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University
Coffee break
Critical Data Visualization Moderated by Catherine D'Ignazio — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Invisible to Visible Moderated by Skye Morét — Northeastern University
Q&A
Lunch
Visualization and Feminism Moderated by Catherine D'Ignazio — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Data Visualization, Collaboration, and Latin America Moderated by Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University
Q&A
Coffee break
The Philosophy of Data and Design Moderated by Crystal Lee — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Coffee break
Data Visualization for Civics Moderated by Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Closing Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University, Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coffee break
Social dinner

Sunday, November 16, 2025 (Northeastern)

Registrations at Northeastern University
Data in Practice Moderated by Arvind Satyanarayan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Coffee break
Data and the Environment Moderated by Skye Morét — Northeastern University
Q&A
Accessibility and Disability Moderated by Arvind Satyanarayan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Lunch
Pedagogy and Experiments Moderated by Crystal Lee — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Politics and Democracy Moderated by Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q&A
Coffee break
Keynote: Kennedy Elliott Moderated by Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University
Closing Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University, Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology