Hi!
I'm an interdisciplinary PhD student at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies and the Knowledge Infrastructure department, at the University of Groningen.
The PhD project, embedded in Digital Humanities and Science and Technology Studies, aims to formulate an alternative approach to sustainable everyday engagement with personal digital material.
I approach these practices from a critical data (center) studies perspective with a strong focus on digital sustainability and environmental media.
From here I start to question who benefits from saving by default, for whom do we preserve and at what costs?
In other words: who determines the future of our digital past?
Therefore, I ask the research question:
What are the social, material and infrastructural conditions for
imagining, co-creating, and sustaining the future of personal digital archiving?
imagining, co-creating, and sustaining the future of personal digital archiving?
To answer this question, I will engage in ethnographic fieldwork and participatory action research with a grassroots volunteer community of people experiencing (temporary) socioeconomic hardship and memory institutions.
Together with the individual participants, memory institutions and a creative maker these insights eventually will be materialised through co-creation in an interactive experience accessible to a wider audience.
Prior to my academic career, I obtained a fine arts degree from Academy Minerva and worked as a visual artist, creating site-specific audiovisual installations concerning the relation between the body and the digital.
During and after my Research Master Arts, Media and Literary studies, I worked as a research assistant conducting ethnographic research with cultural entrepreneurs and taught courses in the bachelor Media Studies.