Communication & Education
We support organisations and projects in communicating content effectively. We develop target group-specific formats that strengthen learning and participation experiences in the long term. Examples include audio walks, events, interactive publications, games and simulations.
In an increasingly digital world, the way content is communicated is becoming more and more important. We support organisations and projects in making information not only understandable, but also tangible.
Whether through podcasts and audio walks, interactive simulations and publications, or events, we use participatory processes to develop target group-specific and playful concepts that promote learning and participation in a sustainable way. This results in new formats that spark curiosity, invite participation, and convey knowledge in a creative and accessible way.
Podcasts & Audiowalks
We produce podcasts and audio walks on topics related to digitalisation and society. We cover the entire spectrum, from conception and moderation to publication.
Audiowalk - Christoph Merian Stiftung
Bytes & Bridges: How is Digitalisation Changing a City?
Digital technologies have long been integrated into our everyday lives, promising efficiency and seamless processes. We often notice them only when disruptions occur, yet they continuously influence how we live together and shape our political system. The audio walk through Basel, developed and produced by Dezentrum, explores this impact across seven stations, making the pervasive presence of digitalisation in daily life visible.
Case StudyDigitalsalat Podcast
Digitalsalat Podcast
Digitalization can and will change all of our lives profoundly. The only question that remains is how. In our podcast "Digitalsalat" we try to answer this question and come up with not only probable but also desirable answers. On an ongoing basis, we get exciting guests in front of the microphone and dive with them into a wide variety of topics at the intersection of technology and society. The podcast is a collaboration between Dezentrum and Mercator Foundation Switzerland.
Listen to Digitalsalat PodcastSimulations & Games
We seek creative solutions to teach digital skills in a playful and immersive way. Together with the target group, we develop new formats in the form of simulations or serious games.
Gaming against Extremism
Using Digital Skills to Combat Radicalisation
Together with the Risk Dialogue Foundation, 5am Games and other project partners, we developed an online game that strengthens young people's digital skills. The aim is to sensitise young people to online and offline radicalisation mechanisms.
Case StudyDigital Literacy
Core Competencies for Digital-Opinion Forming
How we form our opinions today is subject to the influence of analogue, but also digital sources. While we usually master the use of the former due to our education and intuition, the necessary skills in dealing with digital information are often insufficiently developed. The Digital Literacy Project teaches skills in a playful and immersive way for a safer opinion making in the digital space.
Case StudyCollaborations & Events
We organise events and collaborations that bring knowledge to life and encourage exchange. We create spaces that promote participation, incorporate different perspectives and convey content in a sustainable way.
No Future? Playing with the future
Exploring futures through improvisation
Where do we go when we can no longer continue as before? In an era marked by climate crisis and demographic change, technological upheaval, housing shortages and social polarisation, we need new ways of dealing with change. As part of the project ‘No Future? Playing with the Future’, we are collaborating with anundpfirsich and trying our hand at improvisational theatre.
Case StudyFuture Lab Winterthurer Musikfestwochen
Speculative objects from the festival future
For its 50th edition, the Winterthur Music Festival dared to look ahead: in a future lab, we worked with 20 participants to develop scenarios and speculative objects from the year 2050. The results show that the future of the festival should be collaborative, sustainable and people-centred.
Case Study(Interactive) publications
Our publications offer well-founded commentary, discussion points and possible solutions to current challenges. Depending on your requirements or target audience, we can prepare studies or other contributions in an interactive format.
TA-SWISS, HSLU, Musikrat
Three Studies as an Interactive Online Adventure
For the TA-SWISS ‘Culture and Digitalisation’ project, we were able to prepare our own study and two studies by the HSLU and the Music Council in an immersive form. The studies can be explored and discovered in three rooms with an avatar. The most important findings are presented in a playful and multimedia way in the pixel world.
Case StudyTA-SWISS
Digital futures of democracy
The future must be actively negotiated and shaped - and in a democratic way. For the Foundation for Technology Assessment, the Dezentrum developed three future scenarios for a digital democracy in the year 2050. In a participatory and interdisciplinary process, three short stories were created, each illustrated by a speculative object.
Case Study(Speculative) artefacts
We develop scenarios that make desirable futures open to discussion. Speculative objects invite us not only to think about this space, but to experience it – as a starting point for orientation and joint action.
no1s1
A self-managed house that belongs to no one
New technologies allow us to think differently about property, public space and collective goods. With no1s1 (no one's one), we hand over the management of a house to a blockchain-based smart contract. In this way, no1s1 can decide itself about its use and maintain itself autonomously.
Case StudyApéro Digital IV
Speculative newspaper «Algorithm Resistance»
A speculative newspaper about the influence of algorithms on democracy and deliberation. All levels of society are challenged: We need citizen empowerment at the personal level, technological solutions that are an alternative to the big technology platforms, and coherent policy-making at the political level.
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