RESULTS : identity

Where do you work now, what do you do? What is the nature of your work? I am a Visual Interaction Designer working in San Francisco for the design consultant agency IDEO. IDEO is famous for their human-centered design approach and design thinking methods. My task as a Visual Interaction Designer is finding new ways

The norms, expectations and ideas put upon us by society and also ourselves build up like a heavy shell around us. As we take steps in our personal growth, the shell no longer suffices. Who we are and who we want to be become different things, splitting ourselves internally. The discrepancy inside builds up and

The landscapes of our bodies are home to trillions of microorganisms, building a community, which is called the human microbiome. Known as our second genome, the microbiome renders each individual even more unique than our own DNA. It is a cultural heritage, descending from our ancestors, as much as from our current surroundings, which not

We are under constant surveillance – every step we take online produces data which gets accumulated and analyzed by algorithms for profit or is used to manipulate our behaviour, opinions and consumption online. THE ALGORITHMIC PEEPSHOW is a collection of router like objects that allows us to take a private glance back at these inferred

The shared political reality of democracy as we thought we knew it in the western world is being pro-actively challenged. Amplified by the rapid technological advances in digitalisation, development in AI and social media proliferation we witness an erosion of governmental sovereignty. What are the possible futures for our democracies? How will their evolution transform

On digital platforms, people continuously invent and reinvent themselves, creating constantly shifting virtual identities. Selfies, followers, and hashtags have become forms of self-expression, playing a signifcant part in both the virtual and the non-virtual world. The digital and the physical have become essentially inseparable.