I was also so happy to hangout with friends, and see other awesome projects from SEA get showcased!

💬 If we want to tackle resilience and inspire change, we can't simply sit behind our laptops. We must engage in active conversations with community. Maggie Hughes’s work at the MIT Media Lab and @angela-morelli.bsky.social’s advocacy for co-design in the IPCC papers made that clear.

🧵 I gained new ideas on how to we humanize data. Derya Akbaba's talk centred on care and centering communities using the most accessible materials and playful methods. Anastasiia Balagurova's looked at where numbers meet empathy, and made a resource for techniques and common threads.

✨ I learnt so much about the natural world. @jenchristiansen.com’s lessons from the natural world left me full of admiration for the expanse of nature, and @juusokoponen.bsky.social’s experience visualizing biodiversity loss and climate change emphasised to me that these methods must be localised.

🌯 That's a wrap on my weekend in Helsinki, and first visit to Finland, for VK25: Visualizing Resilience. This conference has been on my radar since last fall, and I was happy for the opportunity to showcase my own personal student showcase.

Hey Bluesky! 👋🏻 I haven’t been on here much, but let’s see if I can change that.

Today I’m at the Visualizing Knowledge 2025 conference in Helsinki, organised by Aalto University. I’m here to learn and showcase my Masters degree project on Indigenous memories in Singapore ❤️

Leticia Pozza of Odd Studio and I are on our way to Utrecht today! We’ll be there until the weekend for CEST-LA-VIZ happening this Friday! Get your tickets here if you haven’t done so: cest-la-viz.nl

Also if others are going to the conference too and would like to hang out, please reach out! 🚲