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Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita Beans
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:29 PMWhat comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at accessibility challenges for digital immigrants and the importance of behavioral science for the design of digital technologies. We interview Amruth Bagali Ravindranath from Vita Beans.
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:30 PMThis post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 looks at the role of actors and the stage in performances to explore the role of agency and the public space in storytelling.
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:31 PMThis post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian- two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. This post looks at the stages of pre-production and the screenplay to explore methods and narratives in storytelling.
10 Ways to Say Nothing New
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:17 PMThe rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know.
Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:21 PMThis post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
Information Design - Visualizing Action (TTC)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:34 AMThis is the second part of the Making Change analysis on information activism. It explores the role of the presentation and design of information to translate information into action.
Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AMThis is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
Digital Native
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:40 AMThe end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New Year will bring.
Methods for Social Change
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:42 AMOn this brief introduction, I outline the main targets of my research project for CIS and the HIVOS Knowledge Program. As a response to the thought piece ‘Whose Change is it Anyway’ I will explore civic engagement among middle class youth over the course of the next 9 months by interviewing change makers and collectives that are part of multi-stakeholder projects in Bangalore.
Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:43 AMJasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
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