This community-based co-created VR game shows how emergent media can be put to work as a mediation tool to heal fractures in communities.

Co-creation can be used to support activism as one can see in the Quipu project. The Quipu project combines old and new media to provide a space for women affected by the forced sterilizations in rural areas in Peru to tell their stories in their own words. The process of making the Quipu project connected the leaders of the network through in-person meetings, and strengthened the movement, while also providing a connection that enables the support of global audiences.

Dialogue, listening, and the encounter of multiple points of view are at the center of co-creation. This project offers a unique methodology and platform to create an intimate conversational space for African American men.

Co-creation helps build public space, or, the commons, at a time of heightened polarity and privatization. It seeks to find common ground in unlikely places to rebuild dialogue and a shared vision for governance. The commons refers to public spaces, including our cities, our resources, our media, platforms and our narratives. The Highrise initiative is a stellar example of that process.

A living and growing family album of the US is co-created by connecting local narratives with larger histories through a community-based process in which people share their family photographs, enlarging and diversifying the vision of our country.

The complex problems we face in the 21st century are too big for old, legacy systems. Overwhelmingly, co-creative veterans name climate change as a top priority, to be tackled from the ground up. Complex problems need large teams from different disciplines, and solutions are often found in the communities that are impacted most from the problems. ISeeChange connects dots of data with stories, from the ground up to the sky, co-creating with the most vulnerable people affected by climate change and using NASA’s satellite images.

Participatory methods can involve layers of relationships and many forms of art which this project exemplifies. Its methodology mixes documentary, oral history, dance, and theater, and results in community performances, international tours, and most importantly, a reclamation of buried personal and collective histories.

A groundbreaking collaboration between newsrooms using open source technologies to secure, analyze, and transform terabytes of leaked data about the secretive offshore finance industry into impactful stories.

In the field of human-rights affronts, the highly cross-disciplinary team of Forensic Architecture in London creates a complex picture of war-crime scenes in order to produce new forms of evidence.

This co-created, trans-disciplinary project draws on the collective expertise of sociologists, statisticians, economists, journalists, web engineers, and community members who all are engaged in documenting the rising crisis of evictions across America in real-time.

In a playful, sometimes haunting performative surveillance of domestic life, artist, Lauren McCarthy, mimics consumer AI systems to expose their shortfalls. In her project LAUREN, she installs surveillance systems in participants' homes, and takes on the role of a smart digital personal assistant (like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant), thinking of AI as an antagonistic collaborator.

In this interactive artwork, users play the role of intelligence analysts and sift through reams of public data. The goal of the project is to show the potential problematic assumptions and oversights inherent in dataveillance.

This human-robot drawing performances transform the technological medium into an active collaborator and author in the creative process to reimagine the emerging intersubjectivities in the age of artificial intelligence.

These ongoing conversations between robot and artist create a space for collaboration and, at the same time, an opportunity to interrogate the encoded sociocultural perspectives and biases in AI.

Kurant explores collective intelligence in this interspecies collaboration with termite colonies, interrogating notions of authorship and the risks of outsourced labor.