Hey • I'm Fidel Thomet • I'm an interaction designer, media artist, and creative technologist • I like walking, speculating, and scrolling • I code • I post things on the internet • What do you do? Wanna hang out?

Affiliations

• Urban Complexity Lab (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
• thomet nanni
• Science for Ukraine

Exhibitions

• Xingu Entangled, 27 – 29 May 2024, re:publica, Berlin
• Xingu Entangled, Existência Numérica – Emergências, 27 March – 23 June 2024, Futuros - Arte e Tecnologia, Rio de Janeiro
• Xingu Entangled, 22 – 24 November 2023, Information+ Conference, Edinburgh

Talks & Workshops

• Existência Numérica – Seminário, 2024, Teatro Futuros, Rio de Janeiro; Recording
• Amazonia Future Lab, 2022, re:publica, Berlin
• Relational Landscapes Symposium, 2021, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• Interaction Design Alumni Seminar, 2021, Zurich University of the Arts; Recording
• Bringing Design to Science, Visualizing Knowledge, 2018, Aalto University, Espoo

Publications

• Futuring Machines: An Interactive Framework for Participative Futuring Through Human-AI Collaborative Speculative Fiction Writing, 2024
• New Normal Neighbourhood – Situating Speculative Design, MA Thesis, 2021
• Demografie im Wandel, 2020
• Die bibliografischen Daten der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek entfalten, 2018
• Let’s map the gap, 2018
• Das Flüchtige Archiv, BA Thesis, 2015

Teaching

• Creative Coding, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, winter semester 2023/24
• Entanglements – Visualising and Narrating Complex Systems, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, winter semester 2023/24
• Ornaments, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, summer semester 2023
• Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities, National Library of Latvia, Riga, 26 – 29 July 2022; Lecture
• InfoVis Reading Group, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, winter semester 2021/22, summer semester 2022
• Visualising Complex Ecologies; 3 day workshop (Ausblicke & Einblicke), Zurich University of the Arts, 11 – 13 April 2022

Awards

• Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing Information is Beautiful Awards 2022, Silver in Special Category: COVID-19 Visualizations
• Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing Pudding Cup, 2020
• Seeking a Better Life, Visualizing Well-Being – Data visualization contest, 2015