Stefanie Posavec: Dear Data - data viz for everyone

As a designer, Stefanie uses data-gathering and data-visualisation as a design process, taking seemingly ‘cold’ data and using it to communicate warm, subjective and often emotional messages. She will talk about her explorations in making data more engaging, memorable, and accessible to a lay audience new to data and will show how in an era of ever-increasing data, a designer can – through channelling their inner 'anorak' – use this data to inform their own practice and output, and begin to view data through a more human-focused lens in the process.

Stefanie Posavec is a designer for whom data is her favoured material, with projects ranging from data visualization and information design to commissioned data art. This work has been exhibited internationally at major galleries.She recently completed an award-winning, year-long data-drawing project with Giorgia Lupi called Dear Data, and a book of this project is published both in the US and UK. The 104 postcards and sketchbooks that form the project are held in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York.

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