What is it like to live and work in New York, Mumbai, Zurich, Istanbul or Helsinki? How about Trenton (US), Juinagar (IN), Brugg/Windisch (CH), Eskişehir (TR) or Porvoo (FI)? Should one stay in one’s town or look for work elsewhere? From an individual’s perspective, answering these questions, and getting to know key qualities of a future work place is not trivial. From the perspective of organizations too, providing insights into their work culture and to represent their ‘identity’ to promote themselves is a challenging task. However, such efforts are simply necessary for regional development, to prevent brain drain, and to attract talent.
In iPOLE 2019, project tasks are defined in collaboration with the regional development office (Standortförderung) of Canton Aargau; and are in the context of an upcoming interactive platform called Work Life Aargau. More specifically, we will explore how to profile employers, and how to make the opportunities in the region more visible using qualitative and quantitative story-telling tools. Approaches can be computational, methodological, and/or content/design focused with user experiments. Tools could be, for example, story maps, interactive information visualizations, web implementations, interactive multimedia explorations with video, audio, photography, other visual media such as visual statistics and individual accounts, maybe even explore the potential of VR and AR experiences.
Thus, in interdisciplinary teams, we will design scenarios; implement prototypes; find and test new and innovative ways to profile employers to be used in an online interactive platform. We will, thus, demonstrate new concepts and applications that give an outlook to the future of work-life decisions – only limited by your imagination and creativity.
