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speaking of measuring engagement
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak at diy days New York City on ‘Measuring Engagement’. For their website I answered a few questions that were really inspiring. . What do you see as the most exciting development in storytelling today? Getting together to do it. What’s your wish for the future? More…
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struck
‘My proposition is at the beginning to formalize not what the paradigm of the world is but what the fundamental relations are which formalize, finally, the fact for a multiplicity to be the world. That is the point. After that, when you know what the transcendental is, what the discussion of the multiplicity of the…
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we are diversified beings
Hypermodernity. In which we PICK and FILTER our content, we don’t follow a common program, we DIY, CURATE and SKIP canon, we’re not part of a crowd, we’re part of many small scenes. We are a multitude of PARTIAL IDENTITIES and each FRAGMENT likes to CONNECT with a different MILEU. We don’t meet people that…
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fail better
I’ve been thinking a bit about imperfection lately. Imperfection makes us connect. In stories. In flows. In love. In stories? To explain imperfection in stories is easy: you provide a lose framework but leave intended gaps in the story, so the audience can step in and improve with their contributions. It’s a great way to…
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#484
Excited to be storyteller #484 at Cowbird!
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space-time, singularity, gravitational physics, and multiverses
I had this half-asleep epiphany during a long-haul flight and love this analogy: I might get my physics all wrong, but physicists speak of space-time as being a layer or a grid. Stephen Hawking calls it the fabric of space. He says that what we experience as gravity is caused by the dip in this…
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ipu poll
People at ITU Telecom World Conference (Geneva, Oct 24) came up with an interesting poll. It’s a bit all over the place, some of the answered are biased, and I’m missing total numbers but most of the questions are well worth thinking about. http://forum.world2011.itu.int/poll
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literary review on co-creative media practice (version: May 2011)
So this is my slightly outdated litrev from May 2011. I wrote it for my first annual PhD review at UNSW (Sydney). title Co-creative Practice in Participatory Narratives: Examining How Practice Enables And Limits Collective Storytelling overview Introduction i: Practice/Performance – Social Practice – Media Practice ii: Participatory Storytelling – Objects Have Agency – Authorship…
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thoughts on the role of a teacher as mentor-facilitator-learner-passionizer
During a recent workshop with freedomlab, I was reminded of a reflection on my own teaching practice that I wrote a while ago. In a 2-day thinktank-meets-hackathon we developed a sensory storytelling teaching approach for elementary level that includes much of what I also found useful to engage students, on University level. overview – intro…
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research synopsis
This PhD investigates co-creative practices in participatory storytelling. I compare two transmedia productions – one commercial, one non-profit – that experiment with co-creative story development. One of the projects is a commercial TV production that engages a group of 30 skilled fans during production. First, these game designers, artists and storytellers re-enacted the back-story of…
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“The unrealistic sound of these propositions is indicative, not of their utopian character, but of the strength of the forces which prevent their realization.” Hubert Marcuse
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developing a pattern language for co-creative processes
After DIYdays LA and first steps into documenting WSWP and Robot Heart Stories, the idea stuck to create templates for such co-creative processes, a structure that allows for adaptation and creative re-use. The idea of adapting Christopher Alexander’s approach to design pattern language excited me a little. At its core such a language consists of…