The Textile Makerspace is the location for DLCL 203: Data Visualization with Textiles, a 1-credit independent study that gives students the opportunity to learn and practice a variety of textile methods, and consider different ways of applying them to visualizing data.
Here's some examples of textile data visualization:
- Quinn's PhD quilt wall hanging
- Kelsey Dufresne + Mary Downs's QR code quilt
- Silvie Kilgallon's Stitched Illiad (h/t Sinead Brennan-McMahon)
- Julia Kwon's Like Any Other; see also Julia Kwon's Instagram (h/t Emma Vossbrink)
- Mary Corey March's Dream Blanket (h/t Akasha Hayden)
- Jordan Cunliffe's Texture & other work on Instagram (h/t Akasha Hayden)
- Nathalie Miebach's Stay Healthy and Strong (h/t Akasha Hayden)
- Gareth Holt's Picturing social order (h/t Akasha Hayden)
- Raw Color’s Temperature Blanket (h/t Akasha Hayden)
Other thought-provoking data visualizations
- Stories behind a line, "a visual narrative of six asylum seekers' routes" (h/t Hadil Habashneh)
- Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
Guides to data visualization
Articles on textiles and data visualization
- micha cárdenas's "Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts, and Algorithms" in The Scholar & Feminist Online, Issue 13.3 - 14.1, 2016.
- Krystin Gollihue & Mai Nou Xiong-Gum's "Dataweaving: Textiles as Data Materialization" in Kairos 25.1.