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:

Craft, Reflection + Complexity, Derya Akbaba

Counter-Data Mapping: Data Activism and Youth Participatory Action Research, Jennifer Ângela Lopes

Exploring the Data Visualization Capabilities of Minecraft, Arden Song, Mark Hancock

Community Craft and Embodied Input Physicalization at the Playground, Narges Mahyar, Foroozan Daneshzand, Negar Ghorashi, Sydney K Purdue, Matthew Brehmer

Making as Data: Insights from the Clay Connections Project, Pam Briggs, Jayne Wallace

Collaborative Crafting to Visualize Non-Binary Gender Identities, Tatiana Losev, Nathalie Bressa, Florent Cabric

Craft as Computation: Data Physicalization for Personal Data Autonomy, Celeste Seah, Ye Qian, Clement Zheng

Embodying Relationships Through Craft-Based Physicalization, Ofir Sadka

Craft-Based Data-Physicalization Workshop CHI 2026 – Submission, Anne-Laure Freant

Weaving as Craft-Based Data Physicalization to Explore Experiences with AI, Kimberley Paradis, Lachlan D. Urquhart, Tara Capel

Unproductive Data Visualization: Resisting Productivity Through Craft: Daniela Moyano-Dávila

Data, Storytelling, and Community Crafting Journalism for Public Understanding, Emma Black Kamara

Motifs of Self: Wearing Emotion as Data, Akhere Sandra Onabirhekhanlen

Data Tectonics for Data Physicalization, Carmen Hull

Engaging Children in Technical Skill Acquisition Through Hands-On Crafting and Data Physicalization, Nora Hille

Everyday Craft for Data Physicalization: Local Sourcing and Simple Assembly, Toru Urakawa

Reading the Algorithm in the Artifact Bent Wood, Printed Clay, and the Legibility of Generative Form, Deanna Gelosi

Physical variables to shape individual interpretations into collective knowledge, Ginevra Terenghi

Pulli Kolam: A Traditional South Indian Craft Practice for Representing Data, Shri Harini Ramesh, Fateme Rajabiyazdi

DATA CRANKIES: Exploring Moving Panoramic Theatre as a Data Visualization Medium, Shannon McAllister, Frederik Lesage, Sheelagh Carpendale

From Data Physicalization to Physical Data Storytelling, Eleonora Mencarini

Statement of Interest – Craft-Based Data Physicalization Workshop, Silvia Ferrando

Statement of Interest: Envisioning Data Physicalization Through Ceramic Craft, Allison Waxberg

Waste Not- Want Not, Mirela Reljan-Delaney, Narges Mahyar

Weaving Data Bracelets as a Communal Craft, Mihály Minkó, Damla Çay, Eszter Katona, Mary Karyda

Interwoven Urban Trajectories: Gender, Technology, and Care, Mónica Humeres

Experiencing Craft-Based Data Physicalization as a Group, Juliette Le Meudec

Exploring Identity Through Wearable Data Physicalization: An Autoethnographic Study (wip), Shehryar (Shay) Saharan

Weaving as Material Narrative: Retelling the Temporality and Fluidity of Menstruation, Yixun Li

Lullaby: Crafting Personal Sleep Data into a Seed Rattle, Hanlu ma