Media curation to support Ongoingness
Context of the Project
Between 2019 - 2020 I worked as a Senior Research Associate on the Enabling Ongoingness: Content Creation and Consumption in The New Digital Age Project. One aim of the project is to find new ways to capture and represent something meaningful about an individual and their relationships through a combination of physical things and digital media (which could mean photographs, music, film clips etc). The projects hopes to better understand the potential benefits that design and digital technologies can bring to people to offer new ways to: (i) Express a sense of who they are in the present, but also for the future; (ii) Make objects and media content that will support other people after one’s death; (iii) Enable people, who are already bereaved, to maintain lasting bonds in new ways with someone who has now died. As part of of my role I worked in a number of projects. One of the projects was the Blueprints’ physical to digital: Curation of media to support ongoingness.
Wallace, J., Koulidou, N., Duncan, T., Lawson, S., Trueman, J., Craig, C., Fisher, H., Morrissey, K., Montague K., Welsh, D. (2019). ‘Blueprints’ physical to digital: Curation of media to support ongoingness’. In: Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Research Through Design Conference, 19-22 March 2019, Delft and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Article 31, 1-16.
My role and contribution to this project
Developing the rules for curation.
Working closely with a member of the research team who was also a participant in the research to create the media collages.
Applying a sensitive and person approach for media curation for the context of bereavement.
Presenting the paper and exhibiting the work during the Research Through Design (RTD) Conference in 2019
If you want to know about the project and the current work of the research team you can visit the projects’ website projects’ website.
