Babak Fakhamzadeh

Co-founder of walk · listen · create
(Netherlands / Iran / Brazil)

Founder Marŝarto23 shortlisted Online Jury 2022 Online Jury 2023 Online Jury 2024 SWS Grand Jury 2023 SWS23 shortlisted
Babak was working in ICT4D before it had a name (2001), never really left it, and knows how to throw together a pretty mean combination of a wide array of programming languages, both frontend and backend. He brought photomarathons to Africa (2007) and won the Highway Africa new media award (2007) with Ismail Farouk. Work of his was selected to represent Uganda at the UN World Summit Award, twice (2011, 2012), winning the global competition in 2012 with Eduardo Cachucho. In 2016, together with Agência Pública, he won, and was a runner up for, the Prêmio Jornalístico Vladimir Herzog de Anistia e Direitos Humanos. In 2017, work of his was again selected, now to represent Brazil, for the UN World Summit Award, going on to become a winner. In the same year, other works were nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez award and the Prêmio Petrobras de Jornalismo.

Babak maintains several mobile apps that help users to get lost.

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    The Secret of Seattle’s Disappearing Hill

    · Airbnb and A... · 2020-05-14 12:30
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    Home Maker Sounds

    Ella Parry-Davies
    · Since 2020
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    Online meetup: Claudia Zeiske on ‘Going the distance’

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    Claudia Zeiske
    · walk · list... · 2020-04-28 18:00
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    Dérive app

    · Since 2012
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    The Museum of Yesterday

    · Since 2017
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    Terminalia 2020: Walking Women

    · ARTIFACTS & ... · 2020-02-23 21:50
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    Slow Marathon 2020: Cabrach-Huntly

    · Deveron Proj... · 2020-06-13 07:00
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    Russian Manchester

    · New Russias · 2020-02-08 11:45
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    Promenade en balai supersonique; Op de bezem over de Bezemhoek

    · TSIMzoom asb... · 2 Feb, 2020 · All day
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    Promenade en balai supersonique; Op de bezem over de Bezemhoek

    · TSIMzoom asb... · 1 Feb, 2020 · All day
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    Immersion géopoétique

    · 2020-01-26 17:00
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    ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore Artist in Residence 2019 Creative Contribution

    Eve Payor
    · Since 2019
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    ACA Soundwalk

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    · Atlantic Cen... · 2020-02-08 11:00
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    Florida Stories

    · Florida Huma... · Since 2018
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    Terminalia 2020 in Aberystwyth

    Roger D. Boyle
    · 2020-02-23 11:00
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    Terminalia

    · Tim Waters · 23 Feb, 2020 · All day
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    IYS2020 Sound Walk

    · Internationa... · 2020-01-30 15:30
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    And while London burns

    · Since 2006