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Data By Design
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| With Tanvi Sharma (Art Dir., Apple), Lauren Klein (Prof. Data & Decision Sciences, Emory), Shannon Mattern (Dir. Creative Research, Metropolitan NY Library Council), Silas Munro (Artist & Writer). |
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Oct 29 (Thu) @ 06:30 PM
$40
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In conversation with Shannon Mattern.
P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Lauren Klein, Tanvi Sharma, & Silas Munro to celebrate & discuss the release of their book Data by Design, which explores how the history of data visualization holds the key to designing a more just future.
They will be in conversation with Shannon Mattern, & will sign books after the talk!
Doors open at 6:30pm with the talk starting closer to 7:00pm. Come early & grab a drink from the P&T Cafe!
Tickets & books are available both on eventbrite & at the door.
Housekeeping notes:
This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
Doors open at 6:30pm, with the talk starting around 7:00pm.
Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
If you would like a signed copy & cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
About the authors:
Lauren Klein is Professor of Data & Decision Sciences & English at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab & the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Her research brings together computational & critical methods to explore questions of gender, race, & justice, both in early America & today. Klein is the author (with Catherine D'Ignazio) of the award-winning Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), & the editor (with Matthew K. Gold) of Debates in the Digital Humanities (Univ. of Minnesota Press), among other books & papers. Her next book, Data by Design: Visualization & Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science (MIT Press), will be out in October 2026.
Silas Munro is a designer, artist, writer, curator, surfer, & descendant of the Banyole people of Eastern Uganda. He founded the design studio Polymode, whose clients include MoMA, the MET, Nike, & the Hammer. Munro is the curator & author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest at Letterform Archive & the co-curator of Reverberations: Lineages in Design History at the Ford Foundation Gallery. He contributed to W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, & co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans & the African Diaspora in Graphic Design 19th-21st Century. His visual art was recently exhibited at Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print at Print Center New York.
Tanvi Sharma is a design technologist working at the intersection of data, aesthetics, & the humanities. She is currently an Art Director at Apple & co-author of Data by Design (MIT Press, 2026). She has previously worked at Pentagram, Public Policy Lab, & Spotify. She lives in Harlem, NY, with her two cats, Yuchi & Bubbles. More at tanvi.network.
About the moderator:
Shannon Mattern is the Director of Creative Research at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, a state-founded, member-supported non-profit linking hundreds of libraries & archives across the city. Previously, she held tenured full professorships in media studies, anthropology, & art history at The New School & the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of four books, the (co-)editor of six collections, & the author of over 100 articles & chapters about urban technology, knowledge infrastructures, maps, maintenance, data art, & other heterogenous subjects. She was the 2025 Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress & the 2025 Design Indexer in residence at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. You can find her at wordsinspace.net.
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