Jasmine Lo

Jasmine Lo

Cultural Strategy Executive (London)

Originally from Hong Kong, Jasmine was raised by Tokyo, Gothenburg, Frankfurt and Paris, before taking her studies to the UK. She completed her BA in English at Durham University and her MA in advertising and marketing at the University Of Leeds. It’s hard to say where her path to Crowd DNA began: perhaps it was her love of process and intertwining projects as founded through various university roles across set design, arts management and publicity. Or perhaps it was her dissertation on Victorian commodity culture that took her down the histories of advertising and theories of the crowd. Perhaps the ‘simple’ answer is her third-culture headaches. A fond reader of speculative and experimental writers with weird ways into the world, it’s safe to say that Jasmine draws inspiration from those who do not like boxes.

  • Narrated Galleries

    We love films, but narrated galleries – fusing showreels of still images and audio of participant commentary – creates outputs that allow for high levels of reflection and audience empathy. Ideal for user experience work, in other words

  • Crowd Communities

    We’ve a wealth of experience at setting up and managing communities for clients, with learnings on how best to engage audiences and a full box of tricks for maximising what we get out of the work – including geo tagging, streaming in social media data and a mobile optimised platform

  • Pinterest

    We’ve used Pinterest to really good effect on a number of projects recently, helping us to explore differences and commonalities among different typologies in areas such as fashion and style, home, holidays and entertainment. Engagement levels with participants always rank high, and clients love the vividness and clarity of the findings.

  • Citizen Journalism

    Citizen journalism works on the principle of making reporters of our participants, briefing them to capture what’s happening in the lives of their friends and family via video dispatches and blogging. It gets us places where we can’t otherwise get. It bypasses the bias of having a researcher in attendance. People are often more accurate reporters on those around them than on themselves, so that’s another bias circumnavigated.

  • Network Audits

    If you want to really understand how people interact with those around them, it’s logical to research interconnected groups of friends, family and work colleagues. First developed as part of our award winning word of mouth research for Guardian News & Media, and since then refined and reconfigured across a range of global projects, our network audit approach helps us understand who’s influencing who as authentically as possible.