Dear All, ================================================================== *🎉 Call for participation🍻🧠📊💡*VisActivities - Visualisation Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing, part of IEEE VIS (Oct. 24/29, 2021, Virtual) https://visactivities.github.io ================================================================== Given this year’s special circumstances 😷 VisActivities is now opening a second call for participation. These submissions are: 📝- Workshop Papers: deadline 24 August - On PCS ⚽️- Activity Descriptions: deadline 01 October 2021 - https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9 😂- Challenges: deadline:deadline 01 October 2021 - https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7 More information on the individual calls below. *🔥Motivation:*Workshops, classes, or collaborations with domain experts often include hands-on data visualization activities that involve analog or digital tools and materials as well as more or less well-defined protocols. Recent years have seen the emergence of such data visualization activities in different contexts, including education, design, activism, and interdisciplinary collaboration. While many of these activities naturally take place in a group setting, due to the social distancing measures during the Covid-19 more and more of these activities are now happening online. The VisActivities workshop is a venue where researchers, practitioners, and educators from within and outside of the visualization community discuss goals, methods, audiences, materials and challenges they face when conducting and organising activities. It is also an opportunity where we can brainstorm, design and try novel activities collectively. (more detail on the website) *📝Workshop papers:* We invite a wide range of research papers. Contributions can include: visualization activities, online platforms for activities, learning material, learning goals, taxonomies, visualization guidelines, critical reflections on conducting visualization activities (teaching experience), evaluation strategies for activities, teaching approaches, ethical and critical considerations on activities and teaching. Reports on activities could include procedures, reports and experiences about one or many teaching activities, including a protocol and material of activities including results and reflections. Materials could include new teaching material that supports teaching in general and which is ready for application (slides, visualizations of schema/diagrams/design spaces, cheat sheets, teaching tools), or targeted to support specific activities (physical visualization, sketching templates, programming tutorials). We are particularly interested in ideas about evaluations for both activities and materials. *⚽️ Activity description:* In the 2nd VisActivities workshop, we want to give participants the opportunity to share their activities in the way they were meant to be disseminated: by running them. We therefore invite applications to run an online activity regarding visualization education, design, activism, interdisciplinary collaboration or beyond. Activities can include, for example, sketching aids for idea generation, toolkits for visualisation design, protocols with tangible tokens to help conceptualize quantities for data visualization; sketching exercises to help activists or other stakeholders better understand social issues etc. *Requirements*: The suggested activity must be adapted to online settings, could account for approximately 1 hour or less and expect a double digit number of participants. The suggested activities do not need to be polished: the workshop settings offer a great platform and audience from which to build upon. Upon request the workshop organisers can help with the facilitation. Submission form: https://forms.gle/FahumF9hXnELYnJc9 *😂 Challenges :* As part of the workshop program, we are collecting opinions and position statements on visualization education and teaching. We are especially looking to gather challenges and questions regarding experiences, methodologies, activities that educators face when teaching data visualisation concepts in light of Covid-19 but also more broadly. These challenges will be collected and organised into themes to help scaffold discussions during the workshop. Depending on participants’ interest these discussions could also form the basis for a shared viewpoint publication of what the community could be working towards. *Format:* 200 word text summarizing your positions about the main issues / challenges about teaching visualization. Submissions can choose to stay anonymous. Submission form: https://forms.gle/y6qvf6LcrJSJcrkw7 ❤️ Enjoy your summer ❤️ ORGANIZERS Samuel Huron, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh Georgia Panagiotidou, KU Leuven Mandy Keck, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Jonathan C. Roberts, Bangor University Sheelagh Carpendale, Simon Fraser University