Designalism ACED

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 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 Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam as a reader in Autonomous Practices, investigating "new, self-organized forms of art and visual culture outside the existing systems of art and design."

Alice Wong is a story designer and tutor at MA Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. Her research focuses on understanding our perception of reality. She translates complex information into elaborate, shareable stories. Her main area of interest is at the intersection of biographical documentary, media and social phenomena.

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 economically, or that seriously harm society.

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 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.