Making data comprehensible

La Loma has gained a wide range of experience in making data tangible in objects. In lectures, the members of La Loma vividly demonstrate how the visualisation of information can be combined with a critical point of view.

The practically oriented workshops guide participants directly into creative work with their hands. Themes are discussed together before experiments with materials are followed by the implementation of the participants’ own projects. Due to the free and dynamic group processes, results often emerge that even surprise La Loma.

Presentation of La Loma’s work (en)
Northeastern University/Design Dialogue
12 June 2017 and 12 July 2019, Berlin

Presentation of La Loma’s work (de)
CeRRi (Fraunhofer Institute)
11 April 2017, Berlin

Information visualisation (es)
University of Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano
13 July 2016, Bogota, Colombia

Information visualisation (es)
Goethe-Institut, Bogota
26 July 2016, Bogota, Colombia

Bending bars?
On the visualisation of information and one’s own attitude (de)
HBK Braunschweig
17 May 2016, Braunschweig

Making information tangible (de)
Muthesius School of Art
14 November 2013, Kiel

Getting to know each other differently (de)
Thinking the future differently/Futurzwei
18 October 2018, Berlin
Being creative together – this was La Loma’s contribution to the “Futurzwei Wundertüte”, an event organised by the Futurzwei Foundation. La Loma set the task of freely interpreting unlabelled information graphics about the future in small groups and presenting the resulting predictions to the larger group. This broke the ice right at the beginning of the event – and achieved the goal of the workshop to bring the group together creatively.

Start! Stop! Tell it differently! (de)
Blattkritik/Panamaplus Festival/Futurzwei
27 June 2017, Munich
Futurzwei’s newly published magazine was critiqued by a group of young journalists. La Loma helped to visually structure the results and to present them together with the participants as a walk-in information landscape in the middle of the discussion circle.

Data mask (de)
Symposium (un)certain future/HBK Braunschweig
1 December 2016, Braunschweig
In this short workshop, La Loma guided the participants to answer questions from the World Happiness Report and to transfer them into bar charts made of paper strips. These strips were playfully transformed into a “data mask” that could be worn.

Dato por Liebre (es)
Bogota Platform
6–19 July 2016, Bogota, Colombia
This two-week workshop was organised by the Reactante collective, led by La Loma and accompanied by lectures from different experts. The participants came from different areas such as architecture, graphic design, librarianship and social work. They explored the “informal” work of street vendors in Bogotá, who were being forced out of the cityscape by state regulations and deprived of their livelihoods. After an introduction to data visualisation by La Loma and discussions, the participants worked in small groups on partly interactive works. The results were exhibited during four weeks in the rooms of the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño in Bogotá.

Visualisation-Lab (de)
Burg Giebichenstein, Halle School of Art
3–6 May 2016, Halle
This three-day workshop for industrial design students focused on information visualisation as part of a semester project. Its content dealt with the environmental costs of producing coffee cups, which some participants extended to critical aspects of coffee consumption. The presentation forms were developed independently and even became performative in character. The results were partly interactive and were presented in an exhibition at the Burg Giebichenstein.

Pie battle (de)
Muthesius School of Art
12–15 November 2013, Kiel
This three-day workshop gave students of communication and industrial design insights into how La Loma visualises information in a tangible way. The students critically examined data on egg production in Germany and experimented with different materials to create their own visualisations.