Climate data is nuanced, operates at multiple time and geographic scales, and rarely speaks for itself. Translating this data into a visualization or interactive application with a compelling story or insight for the right audience, at the right depth, is rarely straightforward.
In this hands-on workshop, we introduce three practical frameworks we use daily at CLEVER°FRANKE, an award-winning data design studio whose projects range from dashboards tracking the climate impact of investments and stories about migration across Africa driven by climate change, to generative festival posters reflecting local weather data.
Together, these frameworks guide our designers and clients from an initial idea, through understanding their audience and choosing the right form, to layering data and narrative with the right depth and functionality. We look forward to sharing these frameworks and offering a peek at how they shape our design practice.
In this 90-minute session, we use examples from our client projects to walk through how each framework works and how we apply them. Participants then work with each framework using their own existing project or an imagined one as a reference. The frameworks build on each other, so each step adds depth to the previous one.
Participants leave with a set of simple, memorable frameworks to bring back to their teams and use immediately.
The session is open to anyone who works with data to tell stories or share insights. No design experience needed, only an eagerness to share insights and tell stories.