As part of our reporting and documentation from the expert meeting The Future of the Lab, we’re delving into the participatory mapping session that took place on the second day, organised by the Social Spaces research group. The goal was to explore the future of the media lab. Participants were asked to discuss how the lab was changing, how these changes could be pushed in an interesting direction and how the collaboration between different labs could be facilitated. The research group devised an open and extendible set of icons allowing participants to make their thoughts explicit in a visual, verbal and tactile way in the form of a map situated in space and time.
Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann
Liesbeth Huybrechts and the Social Spaces research group put up an extensive report on the mapping session here. Below you will find video of the final summaries of the 4 mapping groups.
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View on Vimeo.
View on Vimeo.
View on Vimeo.
The participatory mapping session was developed by the research group Social Space (Media & Design Academy, Genk, Belgium). Social Space focuses on the social and participatory uses of media in the daily spaces of people. The group researches how alternative media interfaces and/or participatory design practices can be of an aid in the construction of human relationships in our current networked society. The ease of creating connections in a networked world provokes changes in many layers of society. They explore the social character of media and design in a networked world in a variety of domains. The group is coordinated by Liesbeth Huybrechts and an interdisciplinary team of researchers, among others Priscilla Machils, Thomas Laureyssens and Jon Stam.
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