designing digital tools with immigrants

Designing digital tools withmigrant communities

3 cases

Mariana Salgado

Postdoctoral Researcher

Arki Research group

Department of Media

Aalto University

31.03.2015Service for Immigrants

Twitter: @salgado

Blog:

http://pinatasdigitales.wordpress.com/

Arki blog:

http://arki.mlog.taik.fi/

Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/marianasalgado

IMMIGRANTS & INCLUSION

Underused creative capacity of immigrants-> design research posibilityto stage participation, create disensus and intervene in the politicalorder (Kashavarz & Mazé, 2013)

Design as an agent of social change

Inclusion through media (in this case video)

AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES

CC by Verbruggen & Pekel

AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES

EUscreenXL is an EU funded project that aims to create public access to AV content from broadcasters and archives around Europe.

EUscreenXL is AV domain aggregator for the Europeana project:

• 36 meses (2013-16)

• Consortium

• Additional 20,000 items of AV content on portal by 2016

Content in 14 European languages

Access to 1.000.000 elements of audiovisual material

About EUscreenXL

AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES

About Europeana

Europeana.eu is an internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books,

paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised

throughout Europe.

Scre

en

sho

t fr

om

: htt

p:/

/ww

w.e

uro

pea

na.

eu/p

ort

al/

REMIX

Remix definition: separating and recombining many types of media

including images, video, literary text, and video game assets.

It is a form of creativity. Is is a culture of “rip and create” Fagerjord (2010)

RIP! A Remix Manifesto

“Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's

participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today.

The remix is the very nature of the digital”

(Gibson, 2005).

How cultural diasporascould enrich and

interpret audiovisualcultural heritage?

How could new media strategies

support social inclusion?

Collaboration with Bulgarian immigrants

1

March to December 2014

The day I won…

Director: Lazar MitevArt Director: Borislav Borisov

Á la minute with chef Kolio

Director: Kolio Petrov 15 añosDirector de arte: Borislav Borisov

Videos in Euscreen blog

Director: Kollyo Petrov 15 años. Director de arte: Borislav Borisov

Video Poetry Marathon

2

February 2015

Link to YouTube channel

Collaboration with women immigrants

3

January to March 2015

DISCUSSION

On the evolution of media environment to supportmulticulturality

Societal impact- how to use video remix to empower people?

On Methods: a) collaboration with other professionalsb) long term commitmentc) third sectord) ethical issuese) emotional aspectsf) formats

Production work as a way to research into practices to informthe design process

Reference

s

Keshavarz, M. and Mazé, R. (2013) 'Design and Dissensus:

Framing and Staging Participation in Design Research', Design

Philosophy Papers, 1: unpaginated.

Lammers, E. (2005). Refugees, asylum seekers and

anthropologists: the taboo on giving. Global Migration

Perspectives. Global Commission on International Migration.

Switzerland.

Thanks!

mariana.salgado@aalto.fi

http://www.slideshare.net/mariana.salgado