This presentation was used for the course Service for immigrants. Design Department, Aalto University. March 2015.

1. Designing digital tools with
migrant communities
3 cases
Mariana Salgado
Postdoctoral Researcher
Arki Research group
Department of Media
Aalto University
31.03.2015
Service for Immigrants

2. Twitter: @salgado
Blog:
http://pinatasdigitales.wordpress.com/
Arki blog:
http://arki.mlog.taik.fi/
Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/marianasalgado

3. IMMIGRANTS & INCLUSION
Underused creative capacity of immigrants-> design research posibility
to stage participation, create disensus and intervene in the political
order (Kashavarz & Mazé, 2013)
Design as an agent of social change
Inclusion through media (in this case video)

4. AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
CC by Verbruggen & Pekel

5. AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
EUscreenXL is an EU funded project that aims to create public access to AV
content from broadcasters and archives around Europe.
EUscreenXL is AV domain aggregator for the Europeana project:
• 36 meses (2013-16)
• Consortium
• Additional 20,000 items of AV content on portal by 2016
Content in 14 European languages
Access to 1.000.000 elements of audiovisual material
About EUscreenXL

6. AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES
About Europeana
Europeana.eu is an internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books,
paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised
throughout Europe.
Screenshotfrom:http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

7. REMIX
Remix definition: separating and
recombining many types of media
including images, video, literary text, and
video game assets.
It is a form of creativity. Is is a culture of
“rip and create” Fagerjord (2010)
RIP! A Remix Manifesto

8. “Our culture no longer bothers to use words like
appropriation or borrowing to describe those very
activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's
participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as
record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically
physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today.
The remix is the very nature of the digital”
(Gibson, 2005).

9. How cultural diasporas
could enrich and
interpret audiovisual
cultural heritage?

10. How could new
media strategies
support social
inclusion?

12. Collaboration with Bulgarian
immigrants
1
March to December 2014

13. The day I won…
Director: Lazar Mitev
Art Director: Borislav Borisov

16. Á la minute with chef Kolio
Director: Kolio Petrov 15 años
Director de arte: Borislav Borisov
Videos in Euscreen blog

17. Director: Kollyo Petrov 15 años.
Director de arte: Borislav Borisov

18. Video Poetry Marathon
2
February 2015

20. Link to YouTube channel

21. Collaboration with women
immigrants
3
January to March 2015

24. DISCUSSION
On the evolution of media environment to support
multiculturality
Societal impact- how to use video remix to empower people?
On Methods:
a) collaboration with other professionals
b) long term commitment
c) third sector
d) ethical issues
e) emotional aspects
f) formats
Production work as a way to research into practices to inform
the design process

25. Reference
s
Keshavarz, M. and Mazé, R. (2013) 'Design and Dissensus:
Framing and Staging Participation in Design Research', Design
Philosophy Papers, 1: unpaginated.
Lammers, E. (2005). Refugees, asylum seekers and
anthropologists: the taboo on giving. Global Migration
Perspectives. Global Commission on International Migration.
Switzerland.

26. Thanks!
mariana.salgado@aalto.fi
http://www.slideshare.net/mariana.salgado