Description
With the rapid growth of a media-driven society, translation is fast becoming a key concern related to all forms of media production and dissemination (Bielsa 2022), particularly in regions with diverse languages and in high-stakes contexts (Lee and Wang 2022). However, delivering high-quality translation in these the contexts such as natural disasters, public health crises and international development imposes challenges and requires us to develop innovative new strategies to support translation and for communities.
Working with communities can be a daunting task, it is therefore helpful to have a framework and methods to follow that guide our activities and help communicate our shared goals with our participants and communities. As academics, although we strive to undertake research that exerts meaningful and sustained impact on society, we sometimes struggle to configure research projects in a way to deliver this impact, especially past the end of a given project.
In this workshop, we introduce the Double Diamond – a straightforward approach that provides a frame for designing with communities and can be applied to any domain, with the aim to build community’s translation and media capacities so that they can sustain and grow. In this participatory workshop, you will engage in the whole double-diamond design process, learning about how it can be applied to your own contexts by ‘doing’ design in the workshop. You will learn about how to best frame the problem you are trying to solve, and work with communities in a variety of ways to create impactful and sustainable translation interventions that last beyond the lifecycle of a research project.
At each stage we will present and let you try out concrete methods that can be applied across your research agenda with a wide variety of your collaborators and partners. We will also illustrate how these methods have been applied in the real world through examples of our previous and ongoing research projects. As part of this process, how to configure existing technologies to support sustainable translation practices and how to combat the challenge of sustaining technology innovations past the end of a project will be discussed as well.
By the end of the workshop, we hope to see you feeling excited about designing with communities, for communities, and have awareness of the methods, technologies and processes to design lasting impact into your next partnership.
Why would I come to this workshop?
If you are interested in or are working with communities around translation and technology, then this is for you! No design experience or career stage required; everyone can learn something new!
What do I need to do to prepare?
Come with your own experiences and context, and we will go from there.
| Period | 28 May 2025 |
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| Held at | School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
User-Defined Keywords
- Community translation
- Participatory media
- Sustainability
- Human-computer interaction