Data Storytelling Challenge Exhibition: Open gallery

Celebrate the creativity and insights of York University students by attending the Data Storytelling Challenge Exhibition! Learn more about the exhibition here.

As part of York University Libraries’ inaugural Data Storytelling Challenge, students were invited to explore data storytelling through a medium of their choice, digital or physical. Selected submissions have been curated into this exhibition, showcasing a wide range of approaches to data visualization, storytelling, and making.

Exhibition Theme: Land * Machine

The exhibition is organized around the theme Land * Machine, which asks:

How can data storytelling help us understand and cherish the land we inhabit, while we simultaneously create and deploy increasingly numerous and complex machines?

At a time when data and technology are omnipresent, yet often abstract or disconnected from lived experience, these works translate data into stories that ground technology in place, culture, and local environments. Through visualization and making, the exhibition highlights how data can become a bridge between everyday life, technological systems, and the land that sustains us.

Exhibition gallery hours

Drop in between Monday, March 2, 2026, and Friday, March 20, 2026, any time during the gallery’s open hours:

• Mondays, 9:30 a.m to 5 p.m .
• Tuesdays, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
• Thursdays, 2:30 to 5 p.m.
• Fridays, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Saturdays, 1 to 3 p.m.

The exhibition gallery is free and open to attend by all York university and community members.

The exhibition will have its opening reception on March 5 at 4 to 7 p.m.. Register to attend on Eventbrite.