Data Storytelling Challenge Exhibition: Opening Reception

As part of York University Libraries’ inaugural Data Storytelling Challenge, students were invited to explore data storytelling through a medium of their choice, digital or physical. Selected submissions have been curated into this exhibition, showcasing a wide range of approaches to data visualization, storytelling, and making.

During the opening reception, winning submissions will be announced, and attendees will be invited to vote for a People’s Choice Award.

The exhibition is organized around the theme Land * Machine, which asks:

How can data storytelling help us understand and cherish the land we inhabit, while we simultaneously create and deploy increasingly numerous and complex machines?

At a time when data and technology are omnipresent, yet often abstract or disconnected from lived experience, these works translate data into stories that ground technology in place, culture, and local environments. Through visualization and making, the exhibition highlights how data can become a bridge between everyday life, technological systems, and the land that sustains us.

• Free and open to the public, including all members of the York University community
• Drop-in event : guests are welcome to arrive at any time during the reception
• Light refreshments provided
• Registered attendees will receive a program to help guide their visit

We look forward to welcoming you to an evening of data-driven storytelling, creative exploration, and conversation.

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