Fiber+Data Workshop

Blanket that shows observed ocean depths.

For every book you read crochet a granny square with the colours in the cover. From sweetlystitches on Instagram

The Crochet Coral Reef is an artwork responding to climate change and also a global community-based exercise in applied mathematics and evolutionary theory.

Crocheted a map of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. Each stitch represents 300 square meters and each layer represents 10 meters of depth.

Includes curriculum and handout for data physicalization workshop held in the York University Libraries.

Article on an emotional analysis of Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets, to create a physicalization in the form of a woven bookmark.

Each square represents one episode of the Face Jam podcast, excluding vodcasts, including live shows at RTX 2022 and in Chicago, and including episodes where the food could not be eaten.

Blog post about creating a precipitation scarf, a variation on the temperature blanket.

Blog about visualizing social justice information through crochet. Features Cost of Congress Vest, Incarcerated Voting Rotes Tote Bag, and Voter Turnout Blanket

Story about a knitted scarf tapestry that represents COVID-19 case data from each province in Canada from the start of the pandemic.

A temperature blanket is a crocheted or knit project which uses weather data to create a beautiful, creative, and cozy work of art! Using various colors of yarn, it shows how the temperature of a place changes over time. Each row or section of a temperature blanket represents a different day of the year. Temperature blankets are unique and completely customizable.

The Tempestry Project is a collaborative fiber arts project that presents global warming data in visual form through knitted or crocheted artwork.

Tutorial on creating a representation of a fractal with crochet

Chronological gallery of physical visualizations and related artifacts maintained by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen.

From TedXTupper Lake. Waters that are vital to the Adirondack region of New York State are being protected through the power of wool. Discover how fiber art is being used to represent scientific data as a tool for environmental education and storytelling. Michale Glennon is a wildlife ecologist, fiber artist, and director of Wool and Water, a project of the Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith’s College. Wool and Water is a collaborative project that blends fiber art with scientific information to create visual representations of changing water quality conditions in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Basin.

Large crocheted e-textile brain sculpture wtih embedded LEDs whose illumination is controlled live by a brain-computer interface worn by by a yarncrafting practicioner. Commissioned artwork exhibited at Singapore's ArtScience Museum.