Jordi Tost

PhD Candidate

Jordi received a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia in 2007 and a Master degree in Interface Design from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in 2015.

Since 2007 he worked for different technological and design agencies as creative technologist.

Between 2015 and 2017 he joined the DIGENTI project, which combined satellite data, geovisualization, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and innovative interaction methods to support decision-making in disaster management on a multi-touch tabletop.

In 2018 Jordi joined the PROTOTYP project, which investigates from a critical perspective the role of prototypes and design artifacts as communication medium of possible futures.

Projects

DISA
DISA Digital inclusion in the context of social anxiety disorders
Extended Reality
UX-Evaluation
Prototyping
Speculative Design
Research
PROTOTYP
PROTOTYP Prototyping in Critical Design
Prototyping
Speculative Design
Research

Publications

2024

Prototypes as Future Artifacts of Today: Towards Prototyping Alternative Futures

  • Nils Matzner, Marcel Thiel-Woznica
  • Jordi Tost
  • Kevin Weller
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
2022

Prototyping Inconvenience: A Pedagogical Experiment on Designing for Debate in Design Education

IxD&A Journal (51) p.81–110