We explore the role that stories, new narrative formats and collective forms of storytelling play in design, development and experience, as they offer a window into expressive and personal embodiments, their relationship with their audiences and their potential to shape alternative imaginaries and possible futures through fiction and non-fiction.We look at the affective and material dimensions of digital data collection, archiving, storytelling and imagery, and how these dimensions interact with design practices to shape our memories, how we self-manage everyday life, and our future practices and expectations.
Visual culture and social media
We examine forms of expression and communication that use imagery to craft personal and collective stories on social media. We also study new forms of activism and the friction caused on these platforms over phenomena such as datafication and algorithmic bias.
Open design. Design processes
We explore the disciplinary limits of design and its expansion into other fields of knowledge, as well as methodological changes, research processes and the political pulse of 21st-century design.
Methodological advice: Customized training and advice on qualitative and ethnographic methods and techniques for the study of digital culture.
Design, monitoring and/or evaluation of creative projects: Consultancy, participation, monitoring and/or evaluation for the development of creative projects related to co-creation, public participation and experience design.
Research in cultural innovation: Realisation of studies on design, uses and appropriations of digital technologies, studies of public, audience and user participation.