As visualisation tools become easier to use and AI accelerates chart production, data visualisation is no longer the specialist practice it once was. Yet data remains one of the defining materials of contemporary life. So what happens when designers stop treating data only as something to visualise?
Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist and author creating data-informed experiences across information design, data visualisation and public art commissions using a welcoming, participatory, and playful approach.
Drawing on projects spanning healthcare, museums, community engagement and the arts, this talk explores four emerging approaches to working with data beyond just chart creation. Together, they suggest ways of using data to create participation, meaning, empathy and shared experiences, opening up new possibilities for design in a post-visualisation era.
Stefanie Posavec's work has been exhibited at major galleries including the V&A (Kensington and Storehouse), the Design Museum (Designs of the Year 2016), Somerset House, the Wellcome Collection, Bletchley Park (all UK), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Exploratorium and MoMA (US), where her work is also in the permanent collection.
Her latest illustrated book (I am a book. I am a portal to the universe., co-authored with Miriam Quick) has received multiple accolades, including winning the UK Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize. She has also co-authored two books that emphasize a handmade, personal approach to data: Dear Data and the journal Observe, Collect, Draw!
All our talks are for free (whether you are a member or not), held in English, at the ROTONDES (Rotondes 1) in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
