To confirm or refute the above hypothesis and associated premises;
To mediate spaces for reciprocal recognition between scientists and citizens;
To provide tangible contributions to a multidisciplinary approach to scientific communication in health information and associated policies;
To scrutinise formal and semantic components of online media of civic vocation;
To further unpack the current ambivalence between reliable and unreliable information:
To provide working contributions to the legitimisation of the design discipline, testing its specific tools, strategies and methodologies in a pertinent and timely field of cognitive density.
Methodology: an overview
The project is organised as an iteration in the following phases:
Field work and content gathering/taxonomy towards confirming, refuting and adjusting the above hypotheses;
Production of exploratory communication design prototypes based in the findings of phase 1;
Prototype evaluation by diversified demographics;
Production of communication design specimens adjusted according to evaluation findings;
Public presentation of specimens, findings, methodologies and policy recommendations.
