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 …

Increasingly, Instagram is discussed as a site for misinformation, inau-thentic activities, and polarization, particularly in recent studies aboutelections, the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines. In this study, we havefound a different platform. By looking at the content that receives themost interactions …

This is not a catalogue of finished work. This is also not a report of our collaboration on climate imaginaries. Instead, this zine offers a peek into an ongoing collaboration between artists, designers and researchers who have jointly turned their attention to the rising ocean. In riso-printed* collages, …

Media literacy is an important element in countering the harmful effects of dis- and misinformation. To date, the main perspective on media literacy can be described as a ‘liberalist’ view of media literacy, focused on the nature and source of individual messages (Phillips and Milner, 2021). In this …

Wat kunnen we doen om de culturele en creatieve sector op langere termijn wendbaarder en weerbaarder te maken? Makers, culturele instellingen en andere creatieve partijen gingen met die vraag aan de slag binnen het programma Innovatielabs. In een tijdsbestek van achttien maanden onderzochten zij hoe …

Open source software (app and dataplatform) and corresponding scripts to work with output data from the Urban Belonging project

This article examines the organisation of collaborative digital methods and data projects in the context of engaged research-led teaching in the humanities. Drawing on interviews, field notes, projects and practices from across eight research groups associated with the Public Data Lab (publicdatalab.org), …

This is a report of the research done during the Summer School 2022 at the Digital Methods Initiative (UvA). The work and the report were developed in collaboration with the participants in the datasprint: Gabrielle Aguilar // Federica Bardelli // Laura Bruschi // Miranda García // Giulia Giorgi // Matthew …