Becoming Builder: Generating Collaborative Platforms

Abstract

StudioLab’s second mission is to democratize design. This call for adventure seeks a different mode of thinking and acting, shifting both critical and creative processes from the model of the lone original genius to that of recombinant collaborators. By connecting critical thinking to tactical media-making, the subversive energies of all-too-Romantic bachelor machines become reorganized into critical design teams, small desiring-machines or intimate bureaucracies modeled on activist cells, garage bands, and start-ups. The call to action here: become builder of shared experiences and collaborative platforms; use the UX frame to enable scalability and sustainability of transmedia knowledge production for different stakeholders by connecting with their experiential architectures.