by Marta | Nov 10, 2023 | Article
Things are set in motion on a grey and windy February morning in Amsterdam, one of those that feel like a major force stole half of the colour palette of the world, and you are left there with a heavy sky pressing on your shoulders. The location is a small pond on the...
by Marta | Oct 4, 2023 | Article
The Wild Spot – which is now also a non-profit organisation – is home to my independent research on technology’s role in society, which is progressively moving away from technology per se towards means and methodology to restore some of its...
by Marta | Feb 9, 2022 | Article
The metaverse developed by Meta has already been robbed of its age of innocence, if it ever had one. The virtual environment Horizon Worlds, accessible with Oculus VR headset, is already under accuse since its release in December on the US and Canada markets....
by Marta | Dec 16, 2021 | Article
Energy communities, which organise collective and citizen-driven energy actions, will have an exponential role in the shift to renewables. They provide a decentralised and citizen-driven contribution to the flexibility of the electricity system through demand-response...
by Marta | Dec 2, 2021 | Article
What would you do if you had an enormous space to fill in your city? The Extremely Vast and Incredibly Close Future workshop I organised on November 10 with the support of KTU Design Centre and Design Library invited inhabitants of Aleksotas and Kaunas (Lithuania) to...
by Marta | Nov 2, 2021 | Article
What do official data tell us about a place? How to make a place speak through its informal data? To find out, I have recently organised a Data Campfire with community representatives in Trafaria (Portugal) to sketch a bottom-up dataset that could represent them more...
