Democratizing Data: Grassroots Strategies for Human Rights

Seen as essential to understanding human life, data informs and shapes knowledge creation. It is powerful, political, and for generations has Continue reading →

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 →

GIDEST Talk on Contestational 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 →

Performance as Memory, Transforming Contested Spaces

My recent essay “Zona Intervenida: Performance as Memory, Transforming Contested Spaces” will be published as a chapter in the book Rethinking 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 →