Equally Digital, Digitally Equal

The team worked with four groups across Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and UK sharing thoughts digitally and running online monthly discussions. Megaphones were created, designed by Espacio Nixso and built with poetry group Voices Heard in Leeds.

The megaphones as a technology of communication limited the poets – they had to speak slower, louder and clearer, and hold them close to their mouths, thereby technology became rustrating rather than a facilitator. It was found that instead the shared narratives and practices that were paramount: personal interaction around how people were living, working, and surviving fed into our wider conversations around sustainability, bodies, tech, and health. The project secured a £75k British Council grant enabling live and remote creative collaborations with the group performing a poetry piece using the megaphones at an event hosted in Leeds and broadcast to the collaborators in Latin America.