Exploratory papers
Ilana Paterman Brasil is a media artist post-graduated by the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany, and a designer graduated by Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (ESDI/UERJ), Brazil. She investigates the relations of body, design, technologies and decoloniality. Currently, Ilana is doing a PhD in Design, Theory and Critics at ESDI/UERJ.
We are part of the project Mending the New: A Framework for Reconciliation Through Testimonial Digital Textiles in the Transition to Post-Conflict Rural Colombia. We compose a transdisciplinary team that gathers an engineer, a digital artist, an anthropologist and a textile designer.
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We work together on the Grassroots Radio project which seeks to lower the barriers for communities to have a community information platform/community radio through innovative low cost low tech solutions.
We are a group of designers and PhD researchers working in the Laboratory of Design and Anthropology of the School of Industrial Design, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Coming from different regions of Brazil, our research converges on the understanding that design can be an important political device, especially in the struggles for fundamental rights in Brazil.
All authors are part of the institute human-computer media at the University of Wuerzburg. They have varying backgrounds ranging from psychology to human-computer-interaction to media communications.
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