Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie en CLICKNL hebben tweemaal de Open Call Innovatielabs uitgeschreven, in 2021 en 2022. Deze call stond open voor innovatieve en experimentele projecten om de huidige uitdagingen in de culturele en creatieve sector aan te pakken en de veerkracht van de sector te vergroten. …

The expo The Symbiotic City was on display at ARTIS-Groote Museum from 21 June to 5 September 2024. The expo shows a future Amsterdam where nature and people live together in harmony. The images and texts were created during the workshop The Symbiotic City, in which local policymakers, urban ecologists, …

This paper introduces and contextualises Climate Futures, an experiment in which AI was repurposed as a ‘co-author’ of climate stories and a co-designer of climate-related images that facilitate reflections on present and future(s) of living with climate change. It converses with histories of writing …

Prompt design can be understood similarly to query design, as a prompt aiming to understand cultural dimensions in visual research, forcing the AI to make sense of ambiguity as a way to understand its training dataset and biases ( Niederer, S. and Colombo, G., ‘Visual Methods for Digital Research’). …

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 …

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 …