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Imagined Immigration
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2023
Artist: Ella Krispel
Dimensions:
1750 × 800 mm (175 × 80 cm)
Medium: Woven paper collage
Object number: GD.2023.1162.CC
DescriptionWoven paper collage. Description by the designer: This project is a collection of experiments exploring the tension between British public perception of immigration and concrete immigration data. These experiments focus on the media’s impact on public discussion. By reporting warped and distorted data or information about immigration and immigrants in the UK, the media feeds the public’s misunderstanding of the phenomena impacting political agendas and policies.
By highlighting the media's role in designing our collective perception, the project aims to re-define information making as a type of human craft. These experimental posters were crafted from woven lines of data and information. By weaving research-based information into distorted common assumptions, it visualises how the British media’s reports on immigration are biassed and intentionally crafted as such. The handcrafted aesthetics allow the investigation into the human-made nature of information and point a finger at the British media which holds responsibility for negatively framing the subject of immigration.
Using graphic communication design tools to question the intentions, ethics and effects of the media on the public debate around immigration, the posters give form to the process of information-making and reveal its flaws and biassed nature. By weaving concrete data into warped assumptions, it allows the viewer to take a closer look at how these assumptions were crafted, and offers a closer examination that might challenge them.
By highlighting the media's role in designing our collective perception, the project aims to re-define information making as a type of human craft. These experimental posters were crafted from woven lines of data and information. By weaving research-based information into distorted common assumptions, it visualises how the British media’s reports on immigration are biassed and intentionally crafted as such. The handcrafted aesthetics allow the investigation into the human-made nature of information and point a finger at the British media which holds responsibility for negatively framing the subject of immigration.
Using graphic communication design tools to question the intentions, ethics and effects of the media on the public debate around immigration, the posters give form to the process of information-making and reveal its flaws and biassed nature. By weaving concrete data into warped assumptions, it allows the viewer to take a closer look at how these assumptions were crafted, and offers a closer examination that might challenge them.