We invite data visualization, HCI, and craft researchers and practitioners who are interested in topics related to data physicalization to submit short statements of interest (e.g., 500 words) accompanied by visuals of craft techniques used for representing data, or how they would envision doing so. Our goal is to gather researchers and practitioners to establish a research agenda on opportunities and challenges of representing data through craft practices. Our workshop will be three hours long and held in person.

In the workshop, participants will engage in hands-on group activities of representing data using different craft techniques. The hands-on activities will be followed by discussions among group members and then among all participants in the workshop to discuss opportunities and challenges in data encoding, the impact on the authoring process, tensions between aesthetics and accuracy, and implications of slow practices. Finally, participants will discuss how we could design systems and processes to support craft practitioners in using their medium to represent data.

Authors can submit their statements via google form.

Upon reviewing the workshop submissions, we will notify the authors about their acceptance and confirm that at least one author of each submission must attend the workshop in person. Accepted submissions will be published on the workshop website. We expect to have approximately 20 participants to register and attend the workshop. Please contact us at baharebakhtiari@uvic.ca if you have any questions.

For details on the workshop motivation, activities, and structure, see the workshop proposal: