ESN DUTH

ESN DUTH is a non profit organization active in Thrace, a whole region of Greece. Their members are scattered in four Greek towns. As a subsection of the Erasmus Student Network, they need to be in contact with teams all around the continent. Due to the COVID pandemic they were left with month-long lockdowns, feeling exhausted and disconnected. They were forced to communicate online-only, with hour-long sessions on boring platforms that couldn't make up for the human interaction that was missing. The idea was to set up a virtual office filled with separate conference rooms, each dedicated to and decorated by their working teams. They added interactive posters for announcements and a big screen for content sharing, training lessons, movies, and music during breaks. As they describe it: "FRAME actually made up for things that were missing from other platforms. It lets us be more authentic with our communication. We could feel as if we were in a room together. We would share content in one or many 'physical' screens, we would 'talk privately' in separate rooms but still eavesdrop, we would interact with the avatars of our coworkers."