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Designing in Public Space: Contestation & the Politics of Inclusion

How might we transform public urban spaces to better engage communities? How do we design a process that incorporates the Continue reading →

Manipulating Free Movement: Contestations in Urban Mobility (Data)

Cities today are dynamic urban ecosystems with evolving physical, social and technological infrastructures facilitating, regulating and often constraining the free movement of Continue reading →

Audio Journaling for Self-Reflection among Teens in Participatory Media

In this project we examined the use of “Audio Journaling” as a multi-faceted practice and participatory research method to engage Continue reading →

Zona Intervenida: Performance Documentary

Traces of war and injustice often disappear from physical sites of conflict, lingering only in the fragmented memories of witnesses Continue reading →

Contestational Design: How Agonism Transforms Participatory Design?

Participatory design for some often implies common purpose, stakes and equitable dispositions among participants engaging in a consensual process towards amenable design outcomes. Continue reading →

Guatemala Después: Rethinking the Past, Reimagining the Future

While working in Guatemala since 2012, I have conducted research on artistic responses to historical memory and genocide through interviews Continue reading →

MicroActs: Civic Engagement through DIY Urbanism

In Moscow I have investigated how forms of tactical citizen activism addressing urban issues had begun to emerge. In summer 2012 Continue reading →

Engage Media Lab (EML)

In January 2013 I established the Engage Media Lab (EML), an initiative to engage students in co-designing, conducting and assessing participatory media-based Continue reading →

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