Edited and supervised by Mariana Fernandez Mora, this second volume of Making Waves confronts the urgent need to reimagine climate change beyond stereotypes that frame it as a distant, future issue affecting others. Recognizing the devastating impacts already experienced worldwide, the volume explores …

Visual research has historically been productive in foregrounding marginalised voices through photovoice as alternative to the written and oral forms of participation that dominate public participation. Photovoice projects have however been slow to leverage digital and spatial technologies for reworking …

This contribution applies the research approach of issue mapping to the topic of inclusivity in fashion. Issue mapping concerns the cartography of urgent social topics, through digital and visual research methods. In this mapping, we turn to the online platform of Instagram and ask: what or who is included …

This paper introduces the open-source Urban Belonging (UB) toolkit, designed to study place attachments through a combined digital, visual and participatory methodology that foregrounds lived experience. The core of the toolkit is the photovoice UB App, which prompts participants to document urban experiences …

De klimaatcrisis is niet alleen een planetaire crisis maar ook ‘een crisis van de verbeelding’, schreef Amitav Ghosh in 2016 in zijn boek The Great Derangement. We kunnen ons maar moeilijk voorstellen dat het klimaat dat we nu kennen op termijn drastisch kan veranderen. Maar het voorstellingsvermogen …

The concept of biodiversity, which usually serves as a shorthand to refer to the diversity of life on Earth at different levels (ecosystems, species, genes), was coined in the 1980s by conservation biologists worried over the degradation of ecosystems and the loss of species, and willing to make a case …

Artificial Intelligence-toepassingen (AI) beïnvloeden het leven en werk van iedereen en vragen daarmee doelgerichte aanpassingen aan bachelorcurricula en het handelingsrepertoire van docenten. In Comenius Leadership project ‘AI4Students’ wordt in participatief actie-onderzoek een methodiek ontwikkeld …

In the last month, the Visual Methodologies Collective participated in Regenerative Futures, a month-long design challenge to envision what a more desirable future could look like. Launched by SPACE10, a research and design lab based in Copenhagen, the call invited to use different AI generative models …

So-called fake news and problematic information on social media assume an increasingly important roles in political debate. Focusing on the (early) run-up to and aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, this study examines the extent of the problematic information in the most engaged-with content …