Hay Kranen is a freelance creative coder who creates digital things. He combines technical knowledge with a pragmatic approach and a creative angle and he is tinkering, hacking and balancing on the thin between art, data, tech and narrative.

Daniëlle Arets

Jun 23rd, 2022 31m 28s

Daniëlle Arets leads the Department Journalism and Responsible Innovation at Fontys Hogeschool Journalistiek Tilburg and the minor Design Research at Design Academy Eindhoven. Daniëlle works on the future of journalism through design research.

Florian Cramer

Jun 14th, 2022 31m 41s

Florian Cramer is interested in thinking differently about publishing. He is known worldwide as an expert on communication through memes and anything in the line of experimental publishing and technology is his thing. Florian works at the Wille

Alice Wong

Jun 8th, 2022 46m 7s

Alice Wong is a story designer and tutor at MA Information Design of Design Academy Eindhoven. She focuses on translating complex information into accessible stories. Her research focuses on understanding how our perception of reality is shaped

Eric Smit

May 5th, 2022 27m 47s

Economist Eric Smit is cofounder of Follow the Money, a platform for investigative journalism. Follow the Money was started in 2009 with the aim of investigating people, organizations and systems that misbehave, especially financially and econo

Tamara Witschge

Nov 2nd, 2021 21m 1s

Tamara Witschge is lector Crossmedia at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and she researches the interaction between art and journalism in an academic context.

Jake Charles Rees

Oct 28th, 2021 30m 48s

Jake Charles Rees is curator at C I J, the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. He researches the possibilities of a crossover between art and journalism, a field that comes close to what we have labelled as Designalism.

Mark Deuze

Oct 19th, 2021 29m 14s

Mark Deuze is professor Mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam. Central to Deuze's work is critical reflection on the interaction between media and society, especially in the field of professional media production and media use.

Tobias Natterer

Oct 12th, 2021 25m 52s

Tobias Natterer has worked for DDB Berlin on the Uncensored Library. Using the popular video game Minecraft, articles that are forbidden in some countries, become accessible to everyone. This project is initiated by Reporters Without Borders, w

Niels Schrader

Oct 5th, 2021 30m 42s

Niels Schrader leads a MA at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague called Non Linear Narrative. He is interested in combining journalistic and forensic research with data, information technology and art.

Marisa Mazria Katz

Jul 9th, 2021 33m 37s

Based in New York, Marisa Mazria Katz is a journalist and writer, covering culture and politics. She founded Creative Time Reports, which invited artists to give their perspectives on the news. She then became editorial director at Eyebeam Cent

Lara Ankersmit

Jun 29th, 2021 34m 32s

Lara Ankersmit is deputy editor-in-chief of Het Financieele Dagblad, the Dutch equivalent of the Financial Times. Previously she was responsible for Digital Media at NOS, the Dutch Public Broadcasting Organisation, where -among others- she star

René Sommer

Jun 22nd, 2021 20m 40s

René Sommer is Editor in Chief of Pointer, a programme for investigative journalism on Dutch public television. Pointer combines classic investigative journalism with data journalism, crowdsourcing and open source intelligence.

Yuri Veerman

Jun 15th, 2021 30m 56s

Yuri Veerman is a designer and artist who focuses on the meaning of signs and symbols we use in society. By playing with them and by using simple interventions such as changing contexts he reveals their true meanings.

Annelys de Vet

Jun 1st, 2021 29m 12s

This conversation was recorded on the 1st of April 2021. Annelys de Vet is a designer and co-founder of designlabel Disarming Design from Palestine (DDFP). It creates products that tell alternative stories about life under occupation. She has a

Elliot Higgins

May 25th, 2021 29m

We should probably regard July 14th 2014, as a historic day. It is the day Eliot Higgins started Bellingcat, an investigative website that uses open source tools to expose the truth behind global news stories. Bellingcat has changed research me

Cream on Chrome

May 18th, 2021 23m 14s

Cream on Chrome is a collaboration of Martina Huynh and Jonas Althaus and they work at the cutting edge of journalism and design.

Barbara Visser

May 11th, 2021 41m 23s

As a photographer, filmmaker and performance artist, Barbara Visser focuses on the tension between fact and fiction, on identity, on the relationship between original and copy. Recently she started F for Fact, a new curriculum at the Sandberg I

Robert Trafford

May 4th, 2021 35m 37s

Forensic Architecture is a research agency that combines journalism with a deep knowledge of architecture. This combination has led to stunning results. Bob Trafford works at Forensic Architecture and he is specialized in open source research,

Angelique Spaninks

Apr 27th, 2021 21m 31s

Angelique Spaninks is director of MU, Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven. The name MU is derived from a Japanese character that stands for synergy. That synergy characterizes the background of Angelique Spaninks: she has a background in both design

Foundland Collective

Apr 22nd, 2021 30m 9s

Based in Amsterdam and Cairo, Foundland is an art collective founded in 2009 by Syrian artist Ghalia Elsrakbi and South African artist Lauren Alexander. They use reports from media and social media about the Middle East to create narratives bas

Harald Dunnink

Apr 15th, 2021 37m 56s

Almost 20 years ago he started Designstudio Momkai and in 2013 together with Rob Wijnberg he initiated news organisation De Correspondent. So if we understand Designalism as the merging of design and journalism this is the man to talk to.

Stijn Postema

Oct 24th, 2019 11m 6s

Stijn Postema is a journalist with a background in visual culture, and currently he’s working on his PhD exploring the field of what he calls ‘Artistic Journalism’.

Irene Stracuzzi

Oct 24th, 2019 24m 34s

Italian born graphic and information designer Irene Stracuzzi focusses on geopolitcs and cartography, making both commissioned and self-initiated projects.