A surprising visual can make us pause, notice a pattern, or ask a question we had never considered. How can we bring that potential into the way we explore and communicate data?

This session invites creative, unconventional, still-in-the-works, and carefully crafted approaches to data visualisation. We are interested in work that combines imagination with clarity: visuals that reveal relationships, communicate uncertainty, tell compelling stories, and invite audiences to explore. Contributions may address scientific discovery, education, public engagement, or decision-making at the interface of environment and society.

We welcome experiments with visual storytelling, animation, interactive exploration, hand-drawn graphics, physical data objects, immersive experiences, and combinations of visualisation with sound or touch. How can familiar datasets take unfamiliar forms? When does playful design deepen understanding? How can we make complex information accessible while preserving its nuance?

Scientists, designers, artists, educators, and communicators are invited to share methods, examples, collaborations, and lessons from experiments (including those that did not work as expected). We aim to inspire new ways of seeing data and offer practical ideas participants can bring into their own research and communication.