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Data Vandals 2-Day Workshop Exhibition!
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
August 4 & 5, 2025
Join us for a workshop turning everyday objects into data art provocations and performances. In this hands-on workshop, participants will collaboratively create a Data Vandals exhibition focused on community conversations and data activation. The theme for the exhibition will be the relationship between the environment, technology, and city living.
This will be a whirlwind of activity, as participants will join the Data Vandals & Graphic Hunters to collaboratively draw, build, write, design, and perform their take on the data. Every aspect of the exhibition will be created by the participants in just 2 days, concluding with a public opening. We promise it will be an amazing, chaotic, and even dangerous adventure in data activism!
During this energetic workshop, you'll explore creative ways to use data to facilitate meaningful interactions within your organization and community. These skills can be applied professionally to ideation sessions or help you inspire your organization in fresh, engaging new ways. For social or artistic projects, you will experiment with unusual tools to energize your thinking and reveal new insights. No matter your goal, this workshop will transform the way you communicate and activate data!
We had 12 participants in the workshop:
- Shangita Bose
- Nicole van Deursen
- Isin Kosemen
- Christiaan van Galen
- Maximillian Tarrach
- Erik Driessen
- Sebastiaan Graeff
- Sophie Sparkes
- Silvia Romanelli
- Marie Corradi
- Nathan Pottier
Data Vandals: Jen Ray, Jason Forrest
Graphic Hunters: Goof van de Winkel
Monday, Aug 4: We got to know each other with a fun icebreaker
Then broke into 3 groups:
Team Tile
Team Canal:
Team Greenspace
The Exhibition: “Living Spaces”
The opening!
Our experience:
Some of the promotional materials: