Magazine cover. The titles 'Invisible Planets' and 'Folding Beijing' are superimposed by the names Chile, Hong Kong and Qatar.

2019: A Media Space Odyssey

A tripartite anthology of fictional and real-world stories where the voices of minorities is questionably represented by digital media.

Publication, 2019

Design Research Publication

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2019: A Media Space Odyssey is a tripartite anthology of fictional and real-world stories where the voices of minorities is questionably represented by digital media.

Four magazine spreads on black blackground. They all show some sort of superimposed or censored text.

This publication contrasts Hao Jinfang's sci-fi short stories Invisible Planets and Folding Beijing with online newspaper articles and social media posts depicting the 2019 Hong Kong protests, Chile's Estallido Social (2019 – 2022) and Qatar's abuse of migrant workers ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Using overlapping design elements to censor some bodies of text and highlight others, this work challenges the politics and hierarchies behind (mis)information online.