Storytelling

Nicholas Felton - Creating meaningful stories out of data

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:56:07 GMT

“When you combine life with long exposure photography you get stories”.

Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur and artist whose work focuses on translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences.

Data has become creative material; it’s the new wood of which we can make beautiful objects from. In a world flooded with photographs, what new forms of communication become possible when photography and data visualization techniques are merged to tell complex stories.

Bjarke Myrthu - Life after the printing press

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:49:36 GMT

”The new campfire is this amazing grid created by little pieces that all merge together to our own individual stories.”

Bjarke Myrthu is CEO & founder of BLIND SPOT an interactive storytelling app for social media. In this talk he takes on a storytelling perspective and speaks about life after the printing press and how it’s changing the way we socialize, the way you work and the way you learn.

There is a fundamental change in the way that we tell stories and that change is due to the growing use of social media. The history behind storytelling began as a linear process with stories being told in front of a campfire as a social activity. Today storytelling online involve collective stories that humans share with each other and pass around the Internet. Time and space is no longer a limit for communication to flourish.

FINDING AND USING STORIES

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:36:34 GMT

“This is not a museum tour, this is a museum adventure.”

Nick Gray, Museum Hack founder and CEO, talks about how we can find stories in any material we might have at hand. He’s a guy who loves museums but hates how most museum tours are given and founded Museum Hack to offer unconventional stories from museums as an answer.

Nick tells about how the guests are encouraged to play games and take selfies during the tours. In the end, it’s all about enabling and inspiring people to become better creators.

Brian Reed - How to construct a compelling story

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:44:19 GMT

"A story should make a larger point about human experience and the world."

Brian Reed is a producer at This American Life, the creators of the recent mega hit podcast Serial. He gives an insight about important basic elements to be able to craft a good story.

In This American Life, he and his colleagues focus on three things: action, reflection and stakes. Put together, these become really powerful. But you also need to think about motion when telling a story, as this will pull people forward and make them actually listen.

Jill Nussbaum - Design fiction - imagine the future

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:44:05 GMT

"Let's tattoo design fiction on our arms... or legs!"

Designer Jill Nussbaum takes a closer look at storytelling from a design perspective and discusses how stories can be a framework to help imagine the future of products and services.

Good stories have the ability to take new ideas and put them in a context that everybody understands. But today's designers are envisioning a future of how things can potentially be, and need to be able to communicate this to their clients.

Design fiction, as a kind of idea prototyping, will help to inspire and image the future.

Nonny de la Peña - Immersive storytelling

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:43:36 GMT

"It starts to feel very actual after a while."

How do you create a sense of embodiment in cyberspace? Nonny De La Peña, Senior Research Fellow at USC School Of Cinematic Arts, has the answer.

She takes us into the world of immersive journalism, which uses gaming platforms and virtual environments to create experiences of news and non-fiction. Looking at how immersive journalism works, you start to feel how your mind can be tricked into giving you presence in another place.

Brian Reed - Interview

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:32:24 GMT

Brian Reed interviewed by Andreas Ekström, Sydsvenskan.

Per Cromwell - Stories worth retelling

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:27:21 GMT

"Either you're part of the content or you're part of the disruption."

In the eyes of Per Cromwell, co-founder of Studio Total, storytelling means designing and crafting something that people will want to retell.

Today, you cannot buy attention, you have to deserve it, and to be perceived as innovative, you also have to be innovative.

With examples from various Studio Total campaigns, Per talks about the importance of standing out and getting everyone to look - not only your target audience.

Ed Cooke - Memory techniques for learning

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:44:13 GMT

"Memories need to be used."

Memory techniques teaches us how to use our imagination to store information more powerfully, making our memories last longer.

While explaining the basic foundations for Memrise, an online learning platform focusing on memory training, Ed Cooke - himself Grand Master of Memory - learns us how to become better at remembering with the help from a few essential tricks.

Molly Crabapple - Art and the network

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:02:19 GMT

"A sketchpad can go places cameras cannot look."

For Molly Crabapple, art is the discipline of seeing. Together with her sketchpad, she has been able to see things cameras couldn't - portraying Guantanamo Bay prisoners, Occupy Wall Street protesters and Syrian refugees.

Molly talks of the importance of drawing in a networked world, where there are more images than ever before. She also challenges us as listeners to draw. Because even though it can't change the world, it might make us see it a bit differently.