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graduate student // interaction design Carnegie Mellon University. Im interested in interrogating the politics and poetics of technology and data visualization, particularly as a praxis for social justice. Data visualization as a


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graduate student // interaction design Carnegie Mellon University. I’m interested in interrogating the politics and poetics of technology and data visualization, particularly as a praxis for social justice.

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graduate student // interaction design Carnegie Mellon University. I’m interested in interrogating the politics and poetics of technology and data visualization, particularly as a praxis for social justice.

Data visualization as a prosthetic for collective memory in geographically bounded communities

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We feel... imposter syndrome like our work is never good enough

  • verworked

alone

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We feel... imposter syndrome like our work is never good enough

  • verworked

alone

“Developing a practice that equips us to create the better future through re- creating ourselves is key” to cultivating the emergence of a ‘life-affjrming world’” Hannah Du Plessis

Carnegie Mellon professor, Fit Associates

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I hear you We can be resilient

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I hear you We can be resilient We can also be resilient Collective memory

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I hear you We can be resilient We can also be resilient Collective memory

a cyclical pattern of observing and

  • vercoming together
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Collective memory as data

  • 1. Prosthetic for reflection. data viz

tools could make reflection easier, like building blocks.

  • 2. Communication. They allow us to see
  • urselves in the holarchy of community
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Collective memory as data

  • 1. Prosthetic for reflection. data viz

tools could make reflection easier, like building blocks.

  • 2. Communication. They allow us to see
  • urselves in the holarchy of community

How might I craft data visualization tools that serve as prosthetics for life-affjrming collective refmection and memory making?

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How can we challenge the epistemologies underpinning mainstream data visualization, embracing the fuzzy and vital fmows of information in alternative epistemologies (feminist, etc.) of emotion, embodiment, intuition?

Mimi Onuoha & Jenny O’Dell // data?? Catherine D’Ignazio // feminist data viz adrienne maree brown // emergent strategy Peter Block // community Hannah Du Plessis // mindset and posture Stephen Neely // eurythmics

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How can we challenge the epistemologies underpinning mainstream data visualization, embracing the fuzzy and vital fmows of information in alternative epistemologies (feminist, etc.) of emotion, embodiment, intuition?

Mimi Onuoha & Jenny O’Dell // data?? Catherine D’Ignazio // feminist data viz adrienne maree brown // emergent strategy Peter Block // community Hannah Du Plessis // mindset and posture Stephen Neely // eurythmics Challenging the ways we are “seen” through data Forms of visuals and data that allow for emergence, or a whole that communicates beyond the sum of the data that constitute it A need to situate tools crafted in time and place

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Phone as input Screen as display Display data Store data

How might I craft data visualization tools that serve as prosthetics for life-affjrming collective refmection and memory making?

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  • 2. Phone as input
  • 1. Improv (reconnecting with the body) ---> 2. Reflect on question ---> 3. Share + discuss
  • 3. Projector screen

displaying all data

Context: Small group Sitting in chairs arranged in a circle.

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Developing a paradigm for encoding data in each conversation

The feeling -> text, figure, tension The story -> text The future -> text (categories)

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...the test

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the response

Nice to see responses externalized. “Now that I see it, I want to have a conversation about it.” People liked interpreting what the figures meant People were talking very personally; about the prompt but surprisingly also much more than that. It was hard for the visualization to capture the nature of the conversation, but that’s okay. People realized they all felt the same; wanted the same things in the space It was nice to have the patterns and visualizations to keep a hold of what people really thought.

“There is a conversation

  • nly the people in this

room can have. Find it. ”

adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy

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Next steps

Pass down the memories from this year’s cohort to the new folks coming in, Incorporate circular leadership, and Focus on data visualization paradigms that are more generative, conveying emergence Talk to archivists / community organizers / etc.

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Twitter // @cathrynploehn Medium // @cploehn Email // @ploehn.cathryn cathrynploehn.com slides: cathrynploehn.com/eyeo-slides

Thanks!