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This annual issue embraces articles from three sets of sources: the first covers the topic Virtual Environments and Interaction Design Research at the University of Saint Joseph, Macao SAR, China works selected and guest edited by Carlos Sena Caires and Gerald Estadieu; the second set are three extended articles from the International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI’2021), selected and guest edited by Daniel Mendes and Nuno Rodrigues; and, finally, two articles from the regular pipeline.

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The special issue on Digital Media Artefacts, “Hybrid Praxis”, is a post-congress collective reflection about technology, science, and art. The invited authors participated in ARTeFACTo 2020 or ARTECH 2021; two key congresses were exploring state-of-the-art digital media arts. These encounters gather experiences from the academic world, practitioner world, and hybrid praxis, with art practice-based research as the common thread. If we reflect on contemporary technology, science, and art, we can see that technology is pushing more profound changes in sciences and arts than the other way around. Just take your eyes off the screen, look around you, and compare your daily life to what it was twenty or even ten years ago. Digital technology has profoundly changed your everyday life, relationships, possibilities, and how you express, explore, research, share, and do. We could therefore look exclusively into the digital domain to frame the relationship between the elements of this triad as it now stands.

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Book of Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology – Emerging Extended Realities (ARTeFACTo 2022 Macao), held on 24, 25 Nov. 2022 at Ilha Verde campus, University of Saint Joseph, Macau.

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De entre os milhões de pequenas narrativas pessoais audiovisuais criadas todos os dias com o clássico telefone portátil, um número crescente destas incide sobre aspectos da vida pessoal e da comunidade onde se inserem os seus intervenientes. Quando partilhadas em contexto e na rede global, estas pequenas histórias podem constituir-se como instrumentos ad hoc de afirmação pessoal, social, étnica e cultural - fragmentos fundamentais para a promoção e salvaguarda da diversidade cultural e das minorias. Neste capítulo apresentamos uma reflexão da importância da narrativa pessoal em vários contextos, dando especial ênfase à intervenção social e a promoção e salvaguarda da diversidade cultural à luz do desenvolvimento humano sustentável previsto na Declaração Universal sobre Diversidade Cultural da UNESCO.

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This paper aims to undertake a closer examination of the design ecosystem model, considering it has recently emerged to justify and support the implementation of design policies within the systems failure theory. It does so by identifying and analyzing diverse perspectives and some of the gaps in the literature, and to propose adaptations in the model by looking at design capabilities as its substance, and as well to identify avenues for further research. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.