Disinformation Machine Diagram @maat extended developed in the scope of The Daily Post-Truth
Disinformation Machine Diagram @maat extended
developed in the scope of The Daily Post-Truth, a joint project between the Communication Design Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (FBAUL) and the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (maat).
Now available on maat ext., an unabridged version will be soon published with “The Daily Post-Truth” free distribution newspaper, resulting from a workshop held at Maat with students and teachers form the Communication Design Department at FBAUL. Disinformation Machine Diagram aims to show the flows and connections of the industrial production of alternative facts in the form of a blueprint. The diagram was developed by Abel Quental and Diogo Lourenço, students of the master’s degree in Communication Design at FBAUL, based on Paulo Pena’s lecture “Truth or Lies: Democracy and Populism”, presented in the context of the The Daily Post-Truth project.
The project is motivated by a renewed interest in fiction, within artistic practices and design in particular, as one of the discursive modes that is best able to restore a sense of reality in an age governed by post-truth. Within this context, the newspaper, as one of the media that most evidently suffered the effects of disinformation, becomes prone to appropriation and recuperation. By creatively exploring this publishing model in crisis, The Daily Post-Truth proposes the development of a newspaper, while focusing on the tensions between truth and post-truth, fiction and reality. The Daily Post-Truth uses fiction as the basis for a speculative and critical design practice that seeks to question the tenets of the dissemination of disinformation in the post-truth era.
The Daily Post-Truth newspaper was developed in a four day workshop, held at maat in January 2021, coordinated by António Nicolas, Luísa Ribas and Sofia Gonçalves, with students of the master’s degree in Communication Design at FBAUL: Abel Quental, Beatriz Pinta, Diogo Lourenço and Madalena Lopes. Outputs of the project were also published on the maat ext. content platform. Lectures by Alexandra Midal and Paulo Pena were hosted by maat and held online on November 27, 2020.