The Digital Narratives Studio recognizes that Narratives are a combination of stories being told, the bodies telling them, and the media and technologies that shape them. Our work is shaped by three central questions that also determined the three categories upon which the Studio is built.
Digital technologies are architected with violence and harm that replays patriarchal and colonial structures, naturalizing data biases, algorithmic oppression, and networked manipulation. We explore how digital care can be conceived, prototyped, and taught through collaborative experiments with diverse stakeholders committed to building radical, reparative alternatives.
Before digital technologies are deployed, they are narrated. We make interventions, drawing on historical knowledges, global south experiences, and embedded imaginaries, we create possibilities of imagining technologies differently so that they can narrated differently, beginning with the possibility of ‘What If…?’
Narratives are contestations. They express power masked as inevitability. Digital Technologies are encoded with global inequality of infrastructure, resources, epistemologies and modes of being. We create multiple narrative engagements fostering south-south dialogues, communities, and positionalities to build narrative power.
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Collective Action. We co-create knowledge, build experimental methods, and expand what counts as evidence to support movement builders in shaping South-South dialogues, positionalities, and interventions. If the systems that control narratives operate through intersectional dominance, our responses must be collective, intersectional, and grounded in narrative power. We focus on addressing technology-facilitated violence, the weaponization of misinformation, and the social fragmentation caused by digital infrastructures.
Infrastructure + Resources. Power over digital technologies is concentrated and mirrors global inequalities in ownership and access. We work to shift this by building capacity through training programs, shared resources, and community-driven adoption strategies. Our aim is to equip communities with the tools to build their own infrastructures of digital care—ones that are sustainable, equitable, and rooted in context.
What If…? To ask What if…? is to reclaim the political power of imagination. Our research-based, historically informed, and future-oriented methods help us think beyond what exists. We explore new ways of living, storytelling, and sharing that challenge dominant narratives and make space for collective digital futures grounded in justice, care, and possibility.