Client:
Espai Societat Oberta
Place:
Barcelona + Madrid
Year:
2022
The JornadasDAR (Democracia, Algoritmos y Resistencias) was a series of high-profile international conferences and workshops hosted in Barcelona and Madrid. The summit gathered grassroots networks, activists, and technical scholars to build concrete counter-narratives around digital decoloniality, open knowledge, and systemic resistance against artificial intelligence deployment. My role encompassed expanded visual identity direction, environmental graphic design, and multi-channel campaign architectures. The creative brief was to translate dense technopolitical frameworks—covering data surveillance, automated bias, and digital rights protection—into an accessible visual strategy engineered to foster collective inquiry and collaborative problem-solving.
Development
This project marks the direct structural expansion and brand evolution of the visual identity system I authored during a three-year consecutive series for Espai Societat Oberta's (Open Society Foundations Barcelona) Artificial Intelligence + Human Rights cycles. As the localized program scaled into a national multi-stakeholder summit co-organized by an international federation of civil entities (including DigitalFems, Algorights, and Lafede.cat), the design strategy expanded into a robust branding system. I adapted the foundational identity tokens—preserving the typography guidelines and analytical grids—to sustain a high-volume transmedia campaign, seamlessly linking the digital touchpoints of the global platform (jornadasdar.org) with physical conference environments and interactive workshop layouts.
Applications
The final outcome was a shared visual identity that unified the communication across the conference sessions. The design system and graphic guidelines I developed were adopted by the organizing network, which connected a federation of 124 human rights organizations. This allowed the conference insights and conclusions to be published with a common visual format through a technical policy brief (you can consult the project here), used directly by civil society groups during the regulatory debates of the European AI Act in Spain.






















