Leaky Studio is currently developing a series
of Design/Content Workshops targeting students, not only University students
from the design world, but also both hard and soft scientific researchers
in innovating ways for displaying & visualising research.
Within the design academies, LeakyStudio is focusing
on the designers ability not only to respond to content/information, but
also taking an active role in generating content. Workshops take on an urbanistic twist whereby students
conduct field research outside in the city, through images, texts, videos,
impressions, etc, and are challenged to weave those into a coherent "map"
of the place. Through these workshops, the students create their own content
based on subjective wanderings, and translate those expereinces into an
interface (either print or screen/interactive) for communicative dissemination.
Workshop derived from the collaborative project: Paris:
Ville Invisible,
which, in undertaking a sociological 'opera' of the city of Paris a new
experiential topography of the city was formed - between a sociologist/philosopher,
photographer and designer.
Ideally within this workshop, univeristy departments
could collaborate, between designers, artists, literature students and/or
sociologists/humanities. By combining disciplines designers become habituated to languages of others
and learn how to harness that collaboration into a rich research methodology
and articulation.
Workshop: 4-5 days.
Within the hard and soft sciences, LeakyStudio works on site with students
and professionals in developing both screen and print
based articulations of their research work. How does their research get communicated, how can
the complex web of information and data be clearly and quickly represented
through graphic representation? Students/Professionals get acquainted with
several visualisation methods and techniques focusing
on information cartography.
Workshops: Variable (1-2 days)
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