It’s the last week to see “The Data at Hand” before the exhibition closes on Apr. 4!
Don’t miss your chance to see the intricate sculptures of @miebachsculpture and the soft, tactile maps of @just__practice .
Gallery hours this week are Monday-Saturday, 12 to 5 p.m.
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Installation view of “The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space” at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.
It was great to hear more last Friday about the process and ethos behind "Touching Toxicity" and "Soft City," and how the dynamic duo of just practice has evolved their collaborative practice over the years.
Sophie Chien and Amanda Ugorji first started felting together while working on "Soft City" as roommates in grad school at Harvard GSD. In their makeshift apartment studio, they spent a grueling few weeks putting the massive series of rugs together. By the end of that process, Chien's hands were exhausted—she vowed she'd never felt again.
Luckily, our commission for "Touching Toxicity" brought them together again for more textile work. This time, Chien and Ugorji were in different time zones, carefully divvying up the production work asynchronously to produce a striking and cohesive series of panels.
Thank you to everyone who made Friday's event so engaging! Be sure to check out "The Data at Hand" before it closes on Apr. 4 💫
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Photos by Devyn Rudnick.
There's just three weeks left to see "The Data at Hand" at Gallery 360! As we get into the home stretch of this show, we're excited to welcome artist duo @just__practice to campus next Friday for a conversation about their "Soft City" and "Touching Toxicity" projects and process.
Following the discussion at @nu_cfd , we'll move to the gallery for a reception and some light refreshments.
If you're interested in learning more about just practice's work or meeting the artists, now is your chance!
Sign up at the 🔗 in bio
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Installation view of "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space" at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.
Next Friday, Mar. 20 at 2pm, join us for a conversation between exhibiting artists Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien of @just__practice with Northeastern's Cara Michell.
By weaving data into material form in their series "Soft City" and "Touching Toxicity" on view in Gallery 360, Ugorji and Weston Chien invite viewers to imagine planning processes grounded in care, participation, and ecological justice.
Presented as part of Design Research Week 2026, this program will explore how structural inequities become embedded in ecological systems and the built environment and how creative practice research can model approaches to urban-scale thinking that move beyond top-down decision-making, centering the lived experiences and spatial knowledge of residents as essential to imagining more just futures.
Reception with light refreshments and snacks to follow at Gallery 360.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP at the link in bio 🔗
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Installation view of "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space" at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.
Touching Toxicity are textiles connecting environmental justice in the Bay Area through a series of sections of generic site-based ground conditions to document the relationship between toxicity and the common environments residents (humans, plants, and others) live with every day.
The locations of the sections were selected after conversation with local organizers, artists, and government workers who shared stories of their organizing and environmental justice work.
Photo by Tim Correira
The piece illustrates examples of advocacy and areas that need working toward reform, remediation, and/or rematriation on the ground of the people and ecologies that live amongst it.
We are excited to share that both Soft City and our newest textile series, Touching Toxicity, are part of the exhibition, The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space. The pieces will be on view until April 4, 2026, at Northeastern alongside the work of Nathalie Miebach.
More about the exhibition -
From political forecasting to the charting of global temperatures, data visualization has become a trusted tool to translate and give form to information. As scientists and activists have struggled to accurately communicate the enormity and urgency of humanity’s impact on the Earth, they’ve looked to data visualizations as a key means of communication. Yet these tools—which saturate so much popular media—can be difficult to engage with on a personal level, and at worst can engender feelings of numbness and powerlessness. Data physicalization, or the act of giving a data set physical form, can counteract the data fatigue that we face in a world of digital visualizations.
Organized by Kayleigh Perkov, guest curator, with Juliana Rowen Barton, Director of the Center for the Arts and University Art Collections, and Stephanie Hanor, Director of the Mills College Art Museum
Photos by Tim Correira
Touching Toxicity is up now in Boston! 1/21-4/4 and free to the public ✨
Touching Tox is a collection of six narrative sections about remediation, the concept of natural space, and ecological justice work in the California Bay Area.
The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space is presented as a collaboration between Gallery 360 and the Mills College Art Museum. The exhibition will be on view, in an expanded form, in Oakland in Fall 2026.
It's all coming together! Our team has been hard at work installing "The Data at Hand" at Gallery 360 over the past few days.
From large-scale textile maps to mixed media sculptures, the artworks on view turn datasets into tactile narratives.
The exhibition opens next Wednesday, Jan. 21. We can't wait to share it with you next week!
Some photos from our site visit in the bay a earlier this fall~
Look out for our upcoming piece in 2026!
Views from near The Point, MLK Jr Shoreline, and the Golden Gate
****The MIT Museum Soft City Exhibition closes on February 19th****
Visit at 314 Main St in Cambridge.
We have been told the maps have been touched by over 20,000 hands at this point! Very exciting!💫
Photo Credit: Anna Olivella
2023
Passing On
Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition Finalist
Harvard University
Passing On is an ecological installation that honors the labor of building stories. Over the 18 months, various foliage literally exterts labor by growing within the spatial conditions of the Radcliffe campus. Through a diversity and maturity of local and internationally cultivated plants, flora describes the diverse “ecosystem” of Boston in 2023.
Welcome to the panel Taylor!
Hopefully, we will see you all on 12/17 at 6pm at the MIT Museum.
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tickets here - > https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/making-space
dm us before 12/10 to RSVP if you would like a free ticket.
