The Emancipati Reader (2012) is a discursive reading instrument that addresses the needs of progressive religious practitioners who are willing to adopt new styles of learning to diversify their sources of knowledge. As users research their topic of interest using the left screen of a dual-tablet interface, the Reader dynamically prepares a number of adversarial “point of views” related to the content and presents them on the right screen. The instrument not only intends to assure that the subject is studied in a hyper-linked, socially-networked, and distributed form meshed with data, images, and sound, but that the subject is also presented with opposing arguments that are prepared with custom filtering and content-matching software. Through a comparative study, the Emancipati users rely on confronting first with others’ way of looking at the world to form an opinion; exercise a Kantian form of ‘judgment,’ where the need for exchange with the opposing argument is necessary to become aware of one’s own values, both for upholding a position or taking on others.’ 

Exhibitions
 1st Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012