Join us for a participatory data visualisation workshop to explore how collaborative drawing strategies can embody, interpret, and imagine the living behaviours of mycelium networks.
Mycelium networks play a vital role in our climate and future; however, they remain largely unknown, unquantifiable, and challenging to describe. They embody unique characteristics of non-linearity, collaboration, variance, adaptability, and decomposition through their interconnectedness with the environment and our lives.
During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to individually imagine and reflect on mycelium networks through a guided quantitative data and drawing exercise. We will then focus on drawing collaboratively, adapting together to rule-based conditions that explore the movement and connectivity of the mycelium network.
The workshop aims to explore how generating unexpected and infinite drawing outcomes can embrace multiplicity and allow interaction with an unfamiliar and ungraspable subject. It builds on processes that explore network literacy, with the pen touching the paper being the first instance of navigating a network. We hope participants will gain new perspectives on the topics of connection, decomposition and growth, as well as experimental visualisation approaches to engage with data and topics.
This hands-on, collaborative experience is participatory and inclusive to a general audience.
This event is part of a three-day programme organised by Flourish (part of Canva) called “Data that moves us: turning data into stories, and stories into impact."
