VizChitra 2025

A Blind Date with Data

This workshop is part icebreaker, part data viz, and part craft date. Participants will be paired up like a blind date, gather quirky info about each other’s favorite vegetables, music genres, or how they eat a samosa and collaboratively make an artifact that reflects both their personalities.

The pairs will co-create fun keepsakes like a shared bracelet, badge, or keychain using basic techniques like braiding with strings and beads. It’s a low-stakes, high-vibes way to meet someone new and make data feel warm. It’s a social, easy-going space that explores how data can help us connect.

Takeaways

1. A new friend (or at least a fun conversation!)
2. Discover how data can be playful, social, and deeply human
3. Leave with a co-created keepsake born from shared stories

Audience
Everyone from data skeptics to social butterflies. Especially welcoming for those who think they “don’t get data.”
No prior craft experience is needed; just bring your curiosity and willingness to make a new connection.

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.