Sustainable Practices within Visualization and Physicalization

We invite you to join the IEEEVIS 2024 Workshop on VISions of the Future: Sustainable Practices within Visualization and Physicalization. This workshop will weave together two disparate strands of ‘what can visualization do for climate research’ and ‘what can sustainability research teach the field of visualization’ into a coherent sustainability agenda for the field of Visualization broadly. The aim is to facilitate a space for researchers to collectively reflect on futures where the research and practice of Visualization harmoniously integrate with the Earth and its ecology.

Submission Details

We invite submission of research papers, pictorials, and provocations between 2 and 4 pages long in the standard VIS submission format, excluding references, with length commensurate with content. Relevant topics might include: interrogations into the sustainability of the relationship between the academic and practitioner VIS communities, the use of visualizations for environmental storytelling, the environmental impact of the increasingly high use of machine learning in visualization applications, the role of new materials in physicalization among others. We especially welcome critical data and visualization perspectives on sustainability, such as Indigenous, ecofeminist, post-colonial, and post-humanist perspectives.

Submissions should be made via PCS.

Submission deadline: July 1st, 2024
Notifications: July 30, 2024

Example Topics

Considerations for sustainable visualization ecosystems:

How might information visualization support sustainability goals such as environmental stewardship, climate resiliency, community health and wellness, housing, or food security?
How has data visualization been used in citizen science or grassroots approaches to support sustainability efforts?
How could designers consider people’s variable feelings and receptivity to environmental data-based communications?
How do different people and communities define sustainability? And how should this be considered when visualizing data for sustainability?
How could data visualization support sustainable data governance and environmental agency?
What does it mean to design data visualization for the sustainability of communities of people?
How might visualization be reimagined to accommodate a wide range of sustainability goals?

Considerations for sustainable data:

What is/are sustainable data?
How do different considerations of sustainability shape the data pipeline?
Which data are prioritized for sustainability?

Workshop Organizers

Georgia Panagiotidou, King’s College UK
Derya Akbaba, Linköping University, Sweden
Sarah Hayes, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Tatiana Losev, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Andrew McNutt, University of Utah, USA
Luiz Morais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil