The Digital Democracy Workshop Kit is a digital Toolbox that enables users to organize and conduct workshops focusing on the speculation about the future of digital spaces. This framework aims at the creation of narratives regarding future scenarios and visualizing them in order to enable discourses that integrate a broad variety of perspectives.
NEWS: We are happy to announce that our workshop paper for the International Conference on Computational Creativity has been accepted. We submitted a paper for the workshop track: Future of Co-Creative Systems. Here’s the link to the proceedings webpage with a link to our paper contribution and the video (10 min).
We presented the project at Waterkant Festival 2020. Watch the video to learn more about the project or find the details about its development and more below.
When COVID-19 hit the world on a global scale in early 2020, we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of what we previously would have called a speculative scenario. During this time we were based in Kyoto, Japan, and were developing a workshop format at Kyoto Design Lab (Kyoto Institute of Technology) to speculate about future scenarios of digital public spaces.
The new situation that strongly demanded a minimum of physical human contact exemplified the importance of and need for a digital workshop format which allowed non physical cooperation on a global scale, especially in times of crisis. Furthermore, the measures to limit people’s movements taken by a lot of governments, including many democratic countries, illustrated in particular the importance of digital spaces for public discourse. In the course of this trend we started to develop a digital workshop kit that allows users to speculate about the possible futures of the digital sphere and visualize them using design approaches:
THE DIGITAL SPECULATION KIT
When COVID-19 hit the world on a global scale in early 2020, we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of what we previously would have called a speculative scenario. During this time we were based in Kyoto, Japan, and were developing a workshop format at Kyoto Design Lab (Kyoto Institute of Technology) to speculate about future scenarios of digital public spaces.
The new situation that strongly demanded a minimum of physical human contact exemplified the importance of and need for a digital workshop format which allowed non physical cooperation on a global scale, especially in times of crisis. Furthermore, the measures to limit people’s movements taken by a lot of governments, including many democratic countries, illustrated in particular the importance of digital spaces for public discourse. In the course of this trend we started to develop a digital workshop kit that allows users to speculate about the possible futures of the digital sphere and visualize them using design approaches:
THE DIGITAL SPECULATION KIT
Learn how to apply the workshop kit, which audience it is intended for and explore its four phases in detail.
Curious what kind of projects can emerge from working with the toolkit? Have a look at the results.
When COVID-19 hit the world on a global scale in early 2020, we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of what we previously would have called a speculative scenario. During this time we were based in Kyoto, Japan, and were developing a workshop format at Kyoto Design Lab (Kyoto Institute of Technology) to speculate about future scenarios of digital public spaces.
The new situation that strongly demanded a minimum of physical human contact exemplified the importance of and need for a digital workshop format which allowed non physical cooperation on a global scale, especially in times of crisis. Furthermore, the measures to limit people’s movements taken by a lot of governments, including many democratic countries, illustrated in particular the importance of digital spaces for public discourse. In the course of this trend we started to develop a digital workshop kit that allows users to speculate about the possible futures of the digital sphere and visualize them using design approaches:
THE DIGITAL SPECULATION KIT
Learn how to apply the workshop kit, which audience it is intended for and explore its four phases in detail.
Curious what kind of projects can emerge from working with the toolkit? Have a look at the results.
PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 07 TH / 2020
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY ICCC’2020
SEPT. 07 TH / 2020
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY ICCC’2020
Our workshop paper for the International Conference on Computational Creativity has been accepted. We submitted a paper for the workshop track: Future of Co-Creative Systems. You can find the proceedings of the workshop with our paper contribution here and watch the video on the paper here (10 min).
JULY 14 TH / 2020
TALK AT THE german InstituTe for Japanese Studies
JULY 14 TH / 2020
TALK AT THE german InstituTe for Japanese Studies
On Tuesday (14. July) we talked about our research project at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo. More information on the talk here.
JUNE 20 TH / 2020
TALK AT THE WATERKANT FESTIVAL
JUNE 20 TH / 2020
TALK AT THE WATERKANT FESTIVAL
We were invited by the Gesellschaft für digitale Ethik (association for digital ethics) to present the research project and first findings from our research stay in Japan at the Waterkant Festival. You can watch our talk on Youtube (from 1:23:50 to 2:01:55) and find more information on the talk here.