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It’s time to reimagine data as a dynamic force for creativity, accountability, and collaboration; not just as raw material to be extracted and refined. This course is your invitation to become data fluent: to approach research as an artful entanglement of methods, design, and craft that engages deeply with the communities behind the data.

Who Should Take This Course?

  • Communication Students: Interested in exploring new approaches to empirical research.
  • Social Science and Computing Science Graduate Students: Looking for meaningful, innovative ways to share data with diverse audiences? This is for you.
  • Art & Design Graduate Students: Want to work with data in ways that respect and stay accountable to the communities it comes from? Join us.
  • Curious Creatives: Interested in how art, design, and creative practices shape knowledge itself? You’re in the right place.

What You'll Learn:

This course will equip you with the tools, mindsets, and fluencies you need to reshape how you think about and work with data — creating engaging research that’s accessible and impactful.

  • Transform your understanding of data into opportunities for solving complex social, material, and aesthetic challenges.
  • Rethink research as a vibrant, interdisciplinary conversation that invites collaboration, creativity, and accountability.
  • Move beyond methodology to embrace a craft-driven, design-oriented approach to research.

For further inquiries, please reach out to Professor Fred Lesage at flesage@sfu.ca.

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