Visualizing Knowledge

Start VK25 with a day of hands-on learning! Join us for three workshops exploring AI-assisted data visualization, data sonification, or lightning-fast dataset tools. 📍Workshops will be held at Aalto University. 🔗Find more information and tickets here: vizknowledge.aalto.fi/workshop.html

We’re lucky to have amazing sponsors this year! Huge thanks to Grafia and Reaktor for supporting VK25. Their contributions help us explore the future of data and design. #VK25 #Sponsors #Grafia #Reaktor #Collaboration #AaltoUniversity #VisualizingResilience #VisualizingKnowledge

To kick off the VK25 week, we will be starting with a workshop on Wednesday, June 4th, to be hosted by Fe Simeoni, where attendees will engage in a collaborative experience exploring how Al portrays stereotypes across the gender spectrum. Find sign up info on our website!

Next in #VK25 speaker lineup: Maggie Hughes, PhD candidate at MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication & Microsoft Sociotechnical Systems Fellow. Maggie designs data visualizations that make complex information actionable, fostering community participation & decision-making.

Our next amazing speaker for #VK25, Andrea Valle, is an artist and researcher, audiovisual and media professor at the University of Turin. Andrea will also lead a workshop on data sonification on June 5. Find full details and tickets in the link: vizknowledge.aalto.fi/workshop.html

Welcome our next #VK25 speaker! Angela Morelli is the CEO & co-founder of InfoDesignLab, which provides bespoke information design support for scientific organizations. With 18 years of experience, she has collaborated on projects across climate, sustainability & public health.

Welcome our next speaker: Juuso Koponen is an information designer, data journalist & educator! He is co-founder of Koponen+Hildén studio and co-author of Data Visualization Handbook. He was awarded as Graphic Designer of the Year 2024 & received Science Communication Award 2023.

Meet our next speaker: Dietmar Offenhuber, Professor of Design at Northeastern University, with a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT. His research focuses on environmental information and evidence construction. He’s the author of acclaimed Waste is Information and Autographic Design.

Visualizing Resilience full schedule is now available on our website! Check out the conference day program and the lineup of our amazing speakers! 🔗 vizknowledge.aalto.fi/schedule.html

We are glad to welcome Derya Akbaba as our next speaker at #VK25! Derya is a PhD student at Linköping University. Her research reimagines access to data, visualizations and insights through feminist and interdisciplinary lenses. Join us on June 6 to hear her perspective!

Ben Fry, MIT lecturer and co-founder of the coding platform Processing, is joining #VK25 as a speaker! Ben is principal and owner of Fathom Information Design, a studio focused on making complex data more understandable, accessible, and usable.

Good news! We're extending the Early Bird deadline until April 10, 23:59 UTC+3, so you can now get discounted tickets for #VK25 for one additional week. Don't miss this chance, and hope to see you in June!

The next speaker in our lineup for #VK25 is Perry Kulper. An architect & professor at Taubman College, he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 17 years. His work explores spatial visualizations, diverse design methods, and expanding architecture’s role in human & non-human imaginary.

We’re pleased to announce another speaker! Corinna Coupette is an Assistant Professor at Aalto University and leader of the Telos Lab, researching the intersection of law, computer science, and complex systems. They also direct Aalto’s Information Networks Master’s Program. #VK25

Don't miss out! This is the final week to secure your Early Bird tickets for VK25! 🗓 Early Bird sales close on April 2, 23:59 UTC+3 Get your tickets from our website: vizknowledge.aalto.fi/index.html#[TI…]

We’re pleased to introduce another speaker! Tino Weinkauf, Chair of Visualization at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, whose current research focuses on flow analysis, discrete topological methods, and information visualization. Join VK25 to hear his insights!

We need you! Join the #VK25 volunteer team to help make this year’s event happen and get free entry to the conference! Be part of the experience during the workshop and conference days, June 4-6! Apply through form: forms.gle/moVXDjyFsjmuhe…

Early Bird Tickets are now out! From today until April 1st, limited tickets to the Visualizing Knowledge 2025 conference are available at a discounted price. See our website for more info! vizknowledge.aalto.fi/#[TICKETS]

We are thrilled to announce that Jen Christiansen will be speaking at #VK25! Jen Christiansen is the senior graphics editor at Scientific American, where she art directs and produces illustrated explanatory diagrams and data visualizations.