Visual Storytelling Online Workshop | Ukraine | 2021
Together with youth leaders of Ukraine and Germany, we hosted the dezentralized workshop “Where do I belong?”, which happened from November 13 to 20, 2021. This online workshop aimed to create a digital poster series and allowing the participants to gain an insight into creative and independent visual storytelling. By visualizing and publishing various perspectives we wanted to challenge stereotypes, contribute to a better understanding of each other and advocate for a diverse society. The workshop was conducted in cooperation with SODI e.V., a non-profit organization that works for equality in the world, and the international Charitable Organization Roma Women’s Fund ‘Chiricli’, a non-governmental Roma-led organization that assists vulnerable Roma and advocates for their inclusion in Ukrainian society.
Images & Alternative Facts | Germany | 2019
We invited young journalists, hackers, photographers, designers, filmmakers, programmers and visual makers to two weekends of experimenting, exploring, questioning, hacking, designing and publishing. The course was led by the Dutch initiative Hackers & Designers from Amsterdam and the German non-profit organisation Froh! from Cologne. The long-held idea of images as proof of reality vanished. Washed away by manipulative practices of image production our hyper-visual media streams have become highly subjective and emotional. Authenticity claims to be the new challenge while power structures shift and users become creators. Within two 48-hour workshops, we explored the shift of construction and perception of 'truth' in visual culture. Images and videos that long served as pieces of evidence, can now be modified by technical means and thus be manipulated in visible as well as invisible manner.
Augmented Reality Workshop in Hamm | Germany | 2018
How can the transformation of the city of Hamm over the last 50 years be told in virtual space? Together with journalists, photographers and citizens of the city of Hamm, HSHL students from the fields of design and computer science are developing a transmedia project that allows stories of change to be experienced in urban space: The project ideas developed by the 15 students range from biographical interviews with citizens to virtual objects from the city archive. The project "Archaeology of the Present" is funded as part of the Kreativ.Quartiere Ruhr programme of the European Centre for Creative Economy (ecce) in Dortmund and is being developed as a partner project of the city of Hamm. We want to transport the stories and history of the city in a new way.
The Ruhr region is an exciting place of change - and has been for decades. So why not link the past with the new in an unconventional way? In the interdisciplinary project "Archaeology of the Present", the city history of Hamm meets the still largely unexplored world of virtual reality. In the promising framework of a very special city tour. The connection between the city and virtual space works via so-called image markers, which are captured by the self-developed app via a camera and thus make a visualisation visible on the screen at the desired location. These markers can be placed separately, but graffiti or striking logos are also perfect for this. Viewing is done via tablets that are made available on loan. Visitors can try out the cost-intensive AR glasses in a small exhibition room.
