Outlining the ‘wicked problem' of communicating complex ecological issues to non-expert audiences, environmental humanities scholar Rob Nixon asks: “How can we convert into image and narrative the disasters that are slow moving and long in the making […] How can we turn the long emergencies of slow violence into stories dramatic enough to rouse public sentiment and warrant political interventions, these emergencies whose repercussions have given rise to some of the most critical challenges of our time?" This presentation showcases a range of data visualisations, artworks and public installations which communicate scientific data in ways which aim to engage and inform non-expert audiences. Dr Zoë Sadokierski is a designer and scholar whose research investigates narrative approaches to ecological communication, how images form arguments, and the narrative potential of diagrams.