The Data Garden Collective

Charlene (Singapore-based data journalist) and Jo (Melbourne-based designer) recreate Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec’s famous Dear Data postcard project.

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February 2024

Visualising nature observations through embroidery

A paper that documents the background, methods and findings of our Data Stitching & Storytelling workshop with MPavilion.

July & October 2025

Turning data into friendship bracelets

How do we turn everyday data into wearable craft? We kicked off our Data Crafting Club series with data viz bracelet-making workshops.

About the workshop

July 2025

Friendships, postcards, and drawing life in data

Charlene (Singapore-based data journalist) and Jo (Melbourne-based designer) recreate Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec’s famous Dear Data postcard project.

Read the story

February 2024

Visualising nature observations through embroidery

A paper that documents the background, methods and findings of our Data Stitching & Storytelling workshop with MPavilion.

July & October 2025

Turning data into friendship bracelets

How do we turn everyday data into wearable craft? We kicked off our Data Crafting Club series with data viz bracelet-making workshops.

About the workshop

July 2025

Friendships, postcards, and drawing life in data

Charlene (Singapore-based data journalist) and Jo (Melbourne-based designer) recreate Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec’s famous Dear Data postcard project.

Read the story

February 2024

Visualising nature observations through embroidery

A paper that documents the background, methods and findings of our Data Stitching & Storytelling workshop with MPavilion.

Who we are

Data Garden Co. is a collective of creatives, technologists, educators, and data viz enthusiasts based in Australia, Indonesia, and Singapore. We come together to facilitate learning about data and code through personal storytelling, and other radically human ways.

Our Manifesto

Our Work

Craft

We create and share data stories.

Friendship, postcards, and drawing life in data: Dear Data Melbourne & Singapore edition

We are all needy

Bob Ross Garden

Lockdown Listening

Fire Garden

Race Against Time

Teach

We host workshops on data storytelling and creative code.

Data Crafting Club: Turning data into friendship bracelets

Data Stitching and Storytelling Workshop with MPavilion: Visualising nature through embroidery

Introduction to Creative Coding with RMIT SWITCH (Society for Women in Information Technology)

University of Melbourne VCA: Visualising Sonic Data with p5.js

Resources

We equip educators and leaders to teach data viz and creative code.

Visualising nature observations through embroidery: Case Report

Data Garden Guidebook (Notion)

SUPPORTED BY

STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA (2025)

PROCESSING FOUNDATION (2023)

BLACKBIRD FOUNDATION (2021)