Weight of Water

Lipika Bansal - Carrying water is heavy. Many women and girls have to carry and balance this weight carefully for…

Crowd for Water

Lipika Bansal - People are making their way through the crowd to fill up their buckets, bottles, jerry cans with…

Waiting for Water

Lipika Bansal - Many girls cannot go to school, as they are responsible for water in their households. Every…

Exploring the WaterPhone

Lipika Bansal - Lipika (PhD candidate at TUDelft, Participatory Systems) and Ankur, Society in Alternatives in…

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Final Conference Mediating Presence/Witnessing You

After a year of collaboration results are discussed and elaborated upon in a final conference in…

Fig. 10 The mediated consulting room with the piece of furniture designed to enable mutual gaze by incorporating reflective mirrors.

Chin-Lien Chen - To the right, a sitting area where the initial doctor–patient encounter took place. Both therapist…

Fig. 9 The alternative spatial design proposed in the text, in which Ekern would appear merely once before the audience

Fig. 8 The teleprompter-based design as seen from the audience (left) and from Ekern’s perspective (right).

Chin-Lien Chen - Photographs by Gro Vasbotten

Fig. 7 Schematic analysis of the spatial layout as perceived by the audience.

Chin-Lien Chen - The red arrow on the plan denotes the direction of gaze of the persons seen on stage. As noted

Fig. 6 The concept of spatial montage: a smaller space (Toronto) is added to a larger space (Lillehammer).

Chin-Lien Chen - Together the two establish a mediated space. The fact that Atwood is seated in a studio in Toronto

Fig. 5 Ekern leaves the stage and Atwood is left alone

Fig. 4 Ekern seamlessly hands over the book that Atwood is here to sign

Fig. 3 Renowned writer Margaret Atwood shares a table with Simen Ekern, op-ed editor of the Norwegian Newspaper ‘Dagbladet’.

Chin-Lien Chen - Image captured from live streaming (Dagbladet 2008). For details see Knudsen and Puijik (2009)