Data Sketching Workshop
In contrast to the remainder of the conference day, this workshop asks participants to actively engage with hands-on visualization activities. During the morning, we will primarily work from pre-recorded material by Stefanie Posavec, who introduces ideas from the guided journal “Observe! Collect! Draw!”, which she co-authored with Giorgia Lupi. After lunch, we will take up ideas from a workshop held Monday evening of the conference about activities to facilitate learning, reflecting, discussing, and designing visualization.
The format will be informal and focused on doing.
How to attend
If you would like to attend our workshop, please register for the satellite conference (link to Eventbrite from the main page). During registration, you will get the chance to add a ticket for our workshop. If you already registered, you can still add workshop attendance.
Location: 3A20, ITU
Date: Tuesday October 26, 2021
Time: 10.00-14.30
What to bring: Some paper and a handful of your preferred drawing materials. I like to use Staedtler Fineliner Triplus 0.3mm. Don’t worry if you can’t bring any materials. We will make sure to have backup materials.
Program
The workshop is scheduled for the morning and early afternoon of Tuesday October 26, 2021 at ITU. We organize the workshop in two parts.
10.00-12.00: Observe! Collect! Draw!
10.00-10.10: Welcome
We briefly welcome workshop participants and provide an overview of the workshop and the organizers. If we’re a small group of participants, participants will also get a chance to introduce themselves.
10.10-11.50: Observe! Collect! Draw!
The design activity in the first part of the workshop will be based on pre-recorded material by Stefanie Posavec, who introduces ideas from the guided journal “Observe! Collect! Draw!”, which she co-authored with Giorgia Lupi.
The journal suggests “a new way of seeing your world, where the act of data collection offers a space to both reflect on and engage more closely with your life.”
In the recording, “Stefanie Posavec will guide each of us in mapping a dataset based on our closest connections and personal relationships. The end result will be a highly personal drawing and data visualisation design based on the unique data from our life.”
11.50-12.00: Conclusion and introduction to second half of program
At the end of the first part, we will briefly introduce the second part of the workshop and potentially offer room to reflect on the process and to share our results with each other.
12.00-13.00: Lunch Break
13.00-14.30: Design activity from VIS 2021 Workshop on Data Vis Activities
13.00-14.00: Design activity based on poll (highly improvised and informal)
The design activity in the second part of the workshop will be based on another workshop — the Vis Activities workshop — organized Monday evening at the conference, which is the evening prior to our data sketching workshop. In the Vis Activities workshop, different activities for facilitating learning, reflecting, discussing, and designing are presented.
Based on the activities contributed at the Vis Activities workshop, we will poll our workshop participants to prioritise which of the activities they would like to do. The poll will be introduced before the lunch break, allowing participants to respond during the break.
The result of the poll will be available when we start the design activity. Thus, this will be a highly improvised activity that will ask everyone to work together to make it happen. We hope this will be a chance to have a bit of fun in an otherwise tightly packed conference week!
14.00-14.30: Sharing and reflection
In the final half hour of the workshop, we share our thoughts and reflect on the activities we have done together in the workshop. If there is interest in collecting and sharing our reflections, we will organize how we might collaborate on doing so over the following weeks.
Organizers
- Søren Knudsen, IT University of Copenhagen