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Bring your data to life with crochet! This workshop series will teach you how to encode data that is meaningful to you into a beautiful, tactile project.

No experience with data or crochet necessary! We’ll walk you through everything you need to know about both, and provide you with the yarn and crochet hooks to complete your project.

Register now.

Questions? Contact Jen Hunter (jenhunter@princeton.edu).

Series Overview

During the project kick-off you’ll learn:


Kinds of data best suited to physicalization
How to simplify data so it makes sense in physical form
Files you will need to prepare to plan your project


At the kick-off you’ll have some hands-on time to research data sets, think about your project's physicalization, sketch out a potential pattern, and brainstorm colorways and stitches. We’ll share other data crochet projects as inspiration and provide a worksheet to help you think through each aspect of your project.

Don’t know how to crochet? Join us for an optional Learn to Crochet workshop where you’ll pick up the basics. Then join us for four working sessions over the spring where we’ll get together and craft, and finally cap it all off with a project celebration!

Sessions


Project Kick-off: February 10, 2:30-4pm
Learn to Crochet: February 21, 2:30-3:30pm
Working Session 1: February 28, 2:30-3:30pm
Working Session 2: March 21, 2:30-3:30pm
Working Session 3: April 4, 2:30-3:30pm
Working Session 4: April 18, 2:30-3:30pm
Project Celebration: May 2, 2:30-3:30pm


All sessions will be held in Firestone B-6-H. Limited to 15 participants.

Other project examples:


Temperature blankets
Covid-19 case data scarf tapestry
Digital space granny square blanket
Book cover granny squares
Precipitation scarf