VizChitra 2025

Can we treat soft materials as hard drives of human experience?

What if all your favorite spots in the city, your daily chai count, or a week’s worth of moods could become an artifact, something beautiful, intimate, and handmade? This workshop explores how personal data can be translated into memory objects that act like time capsules. Using ingredients like color-coded threads, buttons, colorful stuffed shapes, and more, you’ll stitch your stats and assemble your own data heirloom.

Let’s come together as data vizards and stitch witches to craft magical potions from your daily rituals, quirks, and emotions, turning them into soft, tactile companions. Make your own character (like a table pal!) or a meaningful gift. The workshop ends with a gentle “show-and-feel” where participants decode and discuss each other’s creations.

We’ll also discuss how textiles have historically functioned as archives. From ancient Khipu cords and dowry bags from Kutch to Japanese garments stitched with sashiko, preserving stories of care and use, fabrics have preserved personal, political, and generational stories across cultures.

Takeaways

1. Explore everyday objects as tools for reimagining data visualization
2. Broaden your idea of data representation through diverse and new mediums
3. Understand how textiles have historically functioned as archives
4. Connect deeply with the process and what you’re creating, and Leave with a handcrafted artifact of your own

Audience
Anyone curious about turning personal memories into something physical. From data enthusiasts to hands-on creators, this workshop welcomes those interested in reimagining how we capture everyday experiences.
(Ps. no design or stitching experience needed)

Bio
Ruby Rybin is a graphic designer and visual storyteller from NID, currently working as a Graphic Design Intern at Hero MotoCorp. She specializes in editorial design and illustration and loves turning serious things into silly things (and vice versa). Ruby thrives on collaboration, curiosity, and plenty of filter coffee. https://www.behance.net/rubyrybin

Shruti Pawar is a maker at heart and a Textile Designer from NID, currently working as a Fashion Design Intern at Peter England. As an artist and researcher, she draws inspiration from daily life and fictional worlds alike. Shruti has experience working with children and conducting workshops with them. She believes deeply in the vast potential of textiles as a medium. https://www.behance.net/shrutipawar
https://www.instagram.com/magarmucchh/

Together, they’re on a mission to make data feel less like math homework and more like a craft party. In an excessively digital world, they explore what it means to make something by hand and where handcraft stands in contemporary society.