Research & Writing
Selected reports, book chapters, and academic papers produced by Studio Picot. PDFs available where rights permit.
Interfacing Futures: Challenging Spatial Coloniality through AI-supported Augmented Reality
An investigation into how AI-supported augmented reality can challenge spatial colonial dynamics within digital heritage practice.
in AI Futures: Digital Heritage and the Global South
Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, Innovation and Opportunity
A landscape review of how AI, XR, 3D printing, gaming and other emerging technologies are reshaping cultural heritage protection, drawing on practitioner insight from Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq and Kenya.
British Council, Cultural Protection Fund
Open Cabinet: Critically Contextualising Contested Heritage through Augmented Reality
Examines an AR web tool developed for the Pitt Rivers Museum, exploring the opportunities and risks of using immersive technology to critically contextualise contested heritage collections.
in Mobile Heritage: Practices, Interventions, Politics
Death is Not an Edge Case: Designing Digital Legacy for Flickr
Using in-depth interviews, focus groups and survey data to uncover people's approaches to digital legacy and the long-term stewardship of their data online.
Flickr Foundation
The State of Social Media Archiving Tools
A systematic benchmarking study comparing and evaluating Big Tech's current offering for content mobility and user data downloads from social media.
Flickr Foundation
Data Lifeboat: Mellon Foundation Public Knowledge Grant Report
A position paper derived from two Mellon Foundation funded workshops with archival professionals introducing the Data Lifeboat tool for creating long-term archival copies of social media data with consent.
Flickr Foundation
View PDFThe Problem of Augmenting Reality for Others: XR Content Co-creation in the Critical Museum
An investigation of the ethical tensions and methodological challenges of co-creating XR content with communities in critical museum contexts.
ECQI 2024
Contextualising the Contested: XR as Experimental Museology
Explores how XR technologies can address colonial narratives in Western museums, using an external application built for the British Museum as a case study.
Herança 2023
Prologue to 'A Generated Family of Man'
An introductory essay examining AI-generated reinterpretations of archival photography collections and the long history of the 'Family of Man' exhibition as a cultural form.
in Flickr Foundation
The Body Creative: AI, Creativity, and Embodiment
Proposes a framework for creative embodiment that traces how Eurocentric mind-body binaries shape the relationship between technology, identity, and creative practice.
Coeur Proceedings 2022
Desertification, or Designing New Worlds in the Dust
A designerly meditation on the American desert as a site of ecological, critical, and ideological formation and its role in constructing American design identity.
in The Culture of Nature in the History of Design, Routledge
No Touching, No Praying, No Questions? Repatriation of Cultural Heritage in India
Challenges Western superiority in repatriation discourse by examining how British colonialism shaped Indian museum culture and who retains the right to decide where cultural heritage belongs.
POCO 2019
Selected Presentations & Conference Papers
Mozilla Festival·Ars Electronica·re:publica·ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)·International Conference of the Image·IEEE International Cyber Humanities Conference (IEEE-CH)·European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry·The Art Museum in the Digital Age·Storytellers + Machines·Museum Tech·Digital Scholarship·Decolonial Architectures·Design History Society·Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS)