Keynote Speakers
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
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 and Tanvi Sharma
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 is a designer working at the intersection of data, design, and the humanities. She previously worked at Pentagram, Spotify and Public Policy Lab.
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Welcome |
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Keynote -- Lauren Klein and Tanvi Sharma |
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10:00:00 |
Coffee break |
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Workshops |
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Lunch |
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Lunch |
13:40:00 |
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15:00:00 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
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15:20:00 |
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Keynote -- Kennedy Elliott |
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Coffee break |
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Closing |
17:30:00 |
Keynote - Bronwen Robertson |
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Social dinner |
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Accepted talks
Ethics / Justice / Diversity
The Atlas of Popular Transport: Subverting the Atlas as a Tool of Collective Intelligence
Alberto Meouchi
In Plain Sight
Gauri Bahuguna
Lost in Transliteration: Visualizing the Algorithmic Misreadings of Chinese Names
Liuhuaying Yang
Emotional Geographies of the Mediterranean
Marcella Del Signore
Visualizing Salary Inequity: Data as a Catalyst for Institutional Change in Higher Education
MiHyun Kim
Overcoming Epistemic Barriers in Data Advocacy: A Framework for Inclusive Information Design
Mohsin Yousufi
Education / Pedagogy
Pedagogies of Practice: Teaching Information Design in an Eco-Social Context
Alessia Musio
Digital Humanities / Museums / Culture
Flow States: Designing visually fluid visualisation and interface tools to support humanistic-centred enquiry and discovery.
Andrew Richardson
Critical Visualization
Pluriversal Civic Encounters: experimental practices of participatory data visualisation from the local
Barbara Urrutia-Badilla
Timeline Architectures: Platform Temporalities and the Design of Online Attention
Oliver Arellano-Padilla
Soft Sites: Textiles as Feminist Praxis
Sophie Chien
Art / Design
Reimagining Research: Gaming, Data + Research Integration
Cary Staples
Politics / Democracy
Data resistance: counter data practices against state-led urban redevelopment in Seoul’s urban manufacturing district
Chaewon Ahn
Visualizing Political Infrastructures of Inequality: A Radical Atlas
Patty Heyda
The New Necro-Nominalism
Samuel Holleran
Distance Unknown: Visualizing the Costs and Risks of Migration in the Americas
Sarah Williams
Visualization in Practice
Designing While Furious
Dana Ragouzeos
Visualizing Environmental Justice: Shaping Urban Policy
Dare Brawley, Mario Giampieri
The Design Work You Don’t See: How Practitioners Frame Problems Before Visualizing Anything
Paul Parsons
Do This Instead: 4 Powerful (and Empowering) Alternatives to Common Charts
Zan Armstrong
Design / Data & Philosophy
Theories of change in visualization
Dietmar Offenhuber
Mapping Shelter, Modeling Care: Participatory Spatial Data from Migrants in Transit
Marcos Escamilla-Guerrero
Books that describe the world through the eyes
Paul Kahn
Echoes of Knowing: Toward an Acoustic Epistemology of Information
Paula Martin Rivero
Environment / Climate
Deep Sea Literacy: Cartographic Activations for Planetary Hydro-Commons
Gokcen Erkilic
Fragile Frontlines: An Atlas of Loss and Damage in the Third Pole
Madeeha Merchant
The Vital Aesthetics of Biodiversity Data: Reconnecting Ecological Relations within Digital Systems
Michelle Westerlaken
Data Journalism / Media
Explaining Geopolitics Through Data and Geography: The Financial Times’ Visual Storytelling Approach
Irene de la Torre Arenas
What it takes to design visual stories in local journalism
Yuqing Liu
Accessibility / Disability
Beyond the Visual: Creating multimodal displays for maximizing ocean science engagement
Jessica Roberts
Decentering Vision in Accessible Visualization
Jonathan Zong
Sparkling conversations with data to empowering communities in Latinoamerica
Jose Duarte
Experimental Data Visualization
Microbial Interfaces
Katia Zolotovsky
Data feminism in action: mapping Urban Belonging in Copenhagen with experimental visualization and participatory GIS
Sofie Burgos-Thorsen
Information Design Project
From Data to Impact: Strengthening Pro-Democracy Work Through Design
Meaghan Barry
Emergent Technology
Does visualization help AI understand data?
Johnathan Sun, Victoria Li