Interdisciplinary practices in information design and visualization

Information+ is a biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners in information design and data visualization to explore shared questions and challenges in these rapidly changing fields. We aim to provoke rich, interdisciplinary discourse on how information representation engages within social, political and environmental contexts.

Information+ 2025 will be held in-person in Boston, USA, between November 14–16, hosted by Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, and Design (CAMD) on November 14 and MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning through the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) and Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) on November 15-16. CAMD, LCAU, and MAD actively promote interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research in information design, data visualization, and related fields.

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Keynote Speakers

Bronwen Robertson, Data4Change

Bronwen Robertson is one of the co-founders of Data4Change. For more than a decade she has worked alongside human rights organisations worldwide, developing community-led approaches to data and storytelling that resist extractive practices. With a background spanning research, technology, and advocacy, she has published widely on the role of culture and creativity in social change. Bronwen is committed to equity, collaboration, and to building data practices that centre the people too often excluded from data yet most affected by the decisions it drives.

Kennedy Eliott, The New York Times

Kennedy joins us from The New York Times, where she is an editor on the Graphics desk focusing on political coverage. She previously worked at National Geographic, where she led a team of visual journalists who created digital graphics, and The Washington Post, where she was a graphics editor. Her work centers on explanatory visual journalism: designing charts, maps and other graphics that help readers make sense of complex political and social issues. Over the past decade, she has guided coverage ranging from U.S. elections and the administration to environmental and scientific topics. Kennedy is passionate about the role of visuals in public understanding and about editing as a craft of clarity, collaboration and informational storytelling.

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture

Lauren Klein, Emory University

Lauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University where she directs the Digital Humanities Lab and the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Her research bridges data science, AI ethics, and American literature and culture, with attention to questions of gender and race. She is the author of Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020, with Catherine D’Ignazio) and An Archive of Taste (Minnesota, 2020). Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Tanvi Sharma, retells the history of data visualization alongside the histories of colonialism and slavery.

Tanvi Sharma, Emory University

Tanvi is a design technologist working at the intersection of data, aesthetics, and the humanities. She is a Designer at Emory University’s Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute, and co-author of Data by Design: A History in Five Charts (MIT Press, 2026). Previously, she worked at Pentagram, Public Policy Lab, and Spotify. She is based in Brooklyn with her two cats.