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Week 23 - 24 | MA Data Visualisation Term 3










In this two week, we need to continues writing and design our final Major project proposal, and we need to submitted in Thurday of Week 24. And also, we have a workshop of Unsensed: More Than Human Rights at Ambika P3 in University of westminster.  Over the past two weeks, our primary focus has been the continued development and refinement of our Final Major Project Proposal (FMPP), which is scheduled for submission in Week 24 on Thursday. This stage of the process required us to consolidate our research direction, articulate a clear design question, and outline both methodological and visual strategies for project implementation.

In parallel, we participated in the Unsensed workshop series, including a key session held at Ambika P3, University of Westminster, titled Unsensed: More Than Human Rights. The workshop introduced speculative and posthumanist frameworks for design, encouraging us to consider how rights, agency, and representation might be extended to non-human entities and environments. Through a series of embodied exercises and critical discussions, the workshop challenged conventional anthropocentric perspectives and offered valuable provocations about sensory bias, inclusion, and ecological justice.

This experience prompted me to reflect more critically on the framing of my own FMPP, which focuses on population ageing and the silver economy. While my project initially centred on human-centred data—such as demographic change, consumption patterns, and eldercare systems—the workshop encouraged me to consider how older adults' relationships with their environments, technologies, and intergenerational networks might also be understood through a broader ecological and multisensory lens. It raised important questions about how ageing is felt, heard, and sensed, not just measured and visualised.

As I move forward, I aim to integrate these insights into my project by designing not only for clarity and legibility, but also for empathy and inclusivity—exploring how data visualisation might represent ageing not as a statistical burden, but as a lived, multi-dimensional experience embedded within socio-environmental systems.


Free Hand- New Typography sketch Books




It highlights the raw, experimental energy behind handmade typography, reminding me that design is not just about precision but about exploration. Although data visualization is often seen as analytical and structured, this book inspires a fresh perspective: before jumping into software and templates, we should return to sketching, testing, and playing with visual forms by hand.

It suggests that emotional expression, visual tension, and personal voice have a place even in data work — encouraging designs that go beyond charts and graphs, toward engaging and narrative-driven visual storytelling. Ultimately, Free Hand reinforces that data visualization, too, is an art of experimentation and not just a science of accuracy.