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A successful launch of the TwistedEdu project


After several preparatory video meetings and online correspondence, the consortium of the TwistedEdu project (full title: Twisted Tales Educational Toolkit for Parent Tutoring and Intergenerational Learning), funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, met in person on Sunday, 29 May. The meeting, which took place at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje,…

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Transmedia Design Masterclass in Budapest


In January of this year, a two-day series of masterclasses entitled “DOC NOMADS ACADEMY” took place in Budapest. Internationally renowned directors, producers, and researchers shared their experience and practice in talks and discussions, and they also took part in workshops on those very topics. The focus this year was on non-fiction transmedia storytelling. The “Brave…

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Friends of the Future workshop in Budapest


ITD’s founder, transmedia designer and strategist, Sara Božanić, has been invited to host a workshop on the methods and possibilities of transmedia storytelling at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, 27 – 29 January. Transmedia storytelling offers countless possibilities for the creators to tell stories that can be experienced across a range…

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BIO 26 Talk #3 – speculations on the future of data


Our CEO, Sara Božanić, will be a guest speaker at BIO 26 Talks, where she will be joining a panel addressing several key issues surrounding data, its use and misuse today and in the future. Together with experts Kim Albrecht, Livia Nolasco-Rozsas and Vladan Joler, Sara Božanić will discuss the future possibilities and alternative perspectives…

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NeoRural Futures – SpeculativeEdu project in Rome


On 2 – 6 September, the city of Rome hosted the SpeculativeEdu NeoRuralFutures summer school, bringing together SpeculativeEdu partners, friends, and leading Speculative Design practitioners, educators, and researchers. And of course, ITD’s Sara Božanić, Pika Žvan Novak and Petra Bertalanič, as SpeculativeEdu Project partners responsible for communication management, were there as well! And it was…

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Speculative Future


Have you ever wondered what the future will look alike? How we can make changes today that will create a better future? In collaboration with SpeculativeEdu and renowned European institutions in the field of Speculative Design, the Institute for transmedia design (ITD) featured SpeculativeEdu’s second event in a row, as planned within a two-year project…

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Will you be my Future Friend?


SpeculativeEdu features the Future Friends Event, taking place in Maribor, Slovenia, 14 – 18 April 2019. Leading Speculative Design practitioners, educators, and researchers, including James Auger, Matt Ward, Ivica Mitrović, Ingi Helgason, Michael Smyth, Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi, Jimmy Loizeau, Rosario Hurtado and Dash Macdonald, will share, exchange, and speculate about Speculative Design and possible futures…

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Mediamorfosis featuring Twisted Tales – a narrative of the future, created today


“Yet again, Sara Božanić delivered the most inspiring presentation of the amazing Twisted Tales, one could hear in Medellín and read on social media posts – the reactions of renowned experts and brilliant minds from around the globe, attending Mediamorfosis Colombia and Peru 2018. On 28 November 2018 in Medellín, Colombia, at the Plaza Mayor…

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Erasmus+ application for funding successful


SpeculativeEdu is an educational project funded by ERASMUS+, the European Union programme for education, training, youth, and sport, with the aim of strengthening speculative design education by collecting and exchanging existing knowledge and experience whilst developing new methods in the field of speculative design. Its scope is to collect, exchange, reflect upon, develop, and advance…