Based in New York, Marisa Mazria Katz is a journalist and writer, covering culture and politics. She founded Creative Time Reports, which invited artists to give their perspectives on the news. She then became editorial director at Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism, that supports artists to produce innovative journalistic work.

Lara Ankersmit is deputy editor-in-chief of Het Financieele Dagblad, the Dutch equivalent of the Financial Times. Previously she was responsible for Digital Media at NOS, the Dutch Public Broadcasting Organisation, where -among others- she started an Innovation Lab. Lara Ankersmit has extensive experience in journalism, digital media and design.

René Sommer is Editor in Chief of Pointer, a programme for investigative journalism on Dutch public television. Pointer combines classic investigative journalism with data journalism, crowdsourcing and open source intelligence.

Yuri Veerman is a designer and artist who focuses on the meaning of signs and symbols we use in society. By playing with them and by using simple interventions such as changing contexts he reveals their true meanings.

This conversation was recorded on the 1st of April 2021. Annelys de Vet is a designer and co-founder of designlabel Disarming Design from Palestine (DDFP). It creates products that tell alternative stories about life under occupation. She has also made the Subjective Atlas, in which people map their surroundings from a subjective point of view.

We should probably regard July 14th 2014, as a historic day. It is the day Eliot Higgins started Bellingcat, an investigative website that uses open source tools to expose the truth behind global news stories. Bellingcat has changed research methods and investigative journalism forever.

Cream on Chrome is a collaboration of Martina Huynh and Jonas Althaus and they work at the cutting edge of journalism and design.

As a photographer, filmmaker and performance artist, Barbara Visser focuses on the tension between fact and fiction, on identity, on the relationship between original and copy. Recently she started F for Fact, a new curriculum at the Sandberg Institute of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.

Forensic Architecture is a research agency that combines journalism with a deep knowledge of architecture. This combination has led to stunning results. Bob Trafford works at Forensic Architecture and he is specialized in open source research, data mining and analysis.

Angelique Spaninks is director of MU, Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven. The name MU is derived from a Japanese character that stands for synergy. That synergy characterizes the background of Angelique Spaninks: she has a background in both design and journalism.