GRAMS of Information

A project on communication and content in the 21st Century

Daniel Garcia, Anna Riin Velner

Year
2022
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Mentors
João Castro, João Martino, João Tiago Santos, José Bártolo, Maria João Baltazar, Margarida Azevedo, Rafael Gonçalves, Susana Fernando
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Degree
Undergraduate in Design
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Course
Communication Design

In the 21st century, we live in a hyper-connected society that looks to the future and is constantly evolving in the ways for us to communicate. The communications technology park is run by a limited number of companies who make the decisions about how, when and in what way we communicate.
The goal in the beginning was good, communication between users, a system that would improve connections between people from different parts of the world. But with time and the purchase by large companies interested in the data and advertising business, these communication systems were affected.

GRAMS of information is a project that aims to analyse the way we communicate. We live in the
information society and through screens we are not always aware of the amount of content we
digest on a daily basis. How would content look measured in a physical, tangible way? Will we be aware of all the information that surrounds us everyday? Through the two main objects of the project, a book and a website, the amount of content and other information such as algorithms, infinite feeds or user data collection is explored.

This work was developed as part of the KYRT project under the theme "Missing Stories", marking the conclusion of the Undergraduate Degree in Design — Communication.

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