​The idea of embodied or arts-oriented data visualisation came to me when I attended a Data Literacy workshop organised in Aix en Provence in 2017 where I met the Colombian designer Jose Duarte who created the easydataviz toolkit and Suzanne Jachsko who in her data cuisine workshops, uses  food as a medium for information and turns it into amazing data artefacts.

I adapted their ideas to the data literacy course I teach to second year Masters' students enrolled in the Master's track on Data, Information and Digital Communication, Information and Communication Devices (DICOD, option A). 

Students work in small groups to choose a topic, research data on their topic and give the data a material or embodied form which will then be displayed prominently in an urban space (school premises, public squares, hallways of buildings, playgrounds). The goal is to encourage participation of the public, facilitate their understanding of real life phenomena and raise awareness which can lead to real change in habits, decision making.
Below are the "urban dataviz" projects created by the students taking this course.
Beneath the slide show, links will take you to a dedicated page with more details of each "urban dataviz" or "data cuisine" creation.