Socially Engaged Transmedia Practice. Three Co-Creative Interventions in Portuguese Neighbourhoods

Abstract

This Design based transdisciplinary research moves around the notions of social innovation and audio-visual communication. It is a theoretical and experimental study around three case studies implemented in Portugal. The interventions are characterised by a co-design and co-creative process that is present in all the project phases: the interaction with local entities, the collaboration with other artists and designers, as well as the promotion of a participatory context with groups of local people. Equally relevant is the production of audio-visual symbolic footage resulting from the engagement with all the stakeholders in the initiatives and the context in which everything unfolds. The key concepts that inform the research are the notions of transdisciplinarity, social innovation, participation, co-design, machine systems theory and atlas of images.