Creative Approaches for City Data

Unconventional Methods for Decoding Urban Landscapes

English Language Course – Featuring the Data Vandals, a New York City–based collective

Join the Data Vandals and take data directly to the people!

In this workshop you will create data visualization posters, sculptures, and paintings to directly engage with your community.

Collaborating with our favourite district, we’ll take to the streets of Budapest to reframe public perspectives through the power of data.

This promises to be a unique and eye-opening experience.

Course Fee / Application

Course Fee: gross amount 101.600. HUF

EARLY BIRD TICKETS! 80 000 HUF + VAT (27%)

Application

Early Bird application deadline 2025-05-16
Start date 2025-08-21

What Will You Learn?

Interactive Public Engagement:

Create participatory experiences that invite audience contribution through real-time data collection, generating living datasets.

Collaborative Creation:

Collaborate to bring data concepts to life through experimentation, and collective problem-solving.

Data as Community Conversation Starter:

Use information visualization to shed light on everyday challenges, spark meaningful dialogue, and encourage thoughtful action through data-informed storytelling.

This Course Is for You If…

… you are an artist and want to learn new approaches to directly engaging with your audience and community.

… you work in data and want to learn new approaches to make your work more engaging, surprising, and inspiring.

… you are curious about how to use data to generate conversations on topics that matter.

… you don’t need a background in data visualization to join, just a willingness to collaborate with others, get your hands dirty, and have some fun conversations!

This Course Might Not Be for You If…

… want to learn traditional data visualization. We won’t be teaching anything about data visualization fundamentals.

… this will mostly be using traditional art materials – no coding or digital work. (You will need to do some research, though)

…if you just don’t want to engage with communities to have productive conversations.

Curriculum

Day 1:

  • Introductions: get to know your new friends!
  • Data Vandals intro – 1 hour show and tell about our work and ideas
  • Discuss subject matter and objectives
  • Break into teams – ideate, discuss, sketch
  • Take time to research the data
  • Sketch – Begin to sketch out your ideas, then discuss with the group
  • BUILD –Let’s make the data art!

Day 2:

  • Assemble objects, make any last tweaks
  • Display the work in a public space in District XII.
  • Engage with the public – 2-3 hours
  • Pack up, return to MOME
  • Debrief, Document what we learned, and Drinks!

Schedule / Timetable

Duration: 2 days (8 hours per day)
2025 August 21-22

Structure:
Each day comprises multiple sessions with interactive lectures, hands-on exercises, group discussions, and a 1-hour lunch break.

Location:
MOME Campus
1121 Budapest, Zugligeti út 9-25

About Data Vandals

Data Vandals is a creative collective that transforms complex information into powerful visual narratives. In a world increasingly driven by data, they believe this information shouldn’t remain buried in databases—it should be seen, felt, and experienced.

Their work brings data to life in public spaces, galleries, museums, and parks, turning abstract figures into striking, immersive encounters. With a multidisciplinary approach that blends art, design, and technology, Data Vandals creates installations that spark dialogue, curiosity, and new perspectives.

By reshaping how we engage with information, they invite audiences to see the world through a more connected, meaningful lens.

→ https://datavandals.com/

Application