IDSP Co-hosts the Intercultural Story Circle Event this November: “Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local.”
IDSP is cohosting its first intercultural story circle at MIIS in collaboration with the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and the Intercultural Competence Committee (ICC).
The intercultural story circle will engage participants in conversation around Taiye Selasi’s TedTalk, “Don’t ask where I’m from, ask were I’m a local.” Students, faculty, and staff are invited to share stories and explore concepts of identity through the lens of “rituals, relationships, and restrictions”.
A story circle is a safe space where individual come together to share experiences, through a thoughtful, structured, and facilitated process. Story circles are powerful tools to develop trust, and generate collective problem solving and action.
Please join us on Wednesday November 11th from 6:30pm-8:00pm at the DLC!
“Cowbird is a public library of human experience.” Tap into the collection of stories from around the world, search by topic, location, or respond to ” story seeds.” Currentlythey house stories from 52,533 authors from 185 countries have told 83,639 stories on 28,076 topics. Contribute to the community and listen to some great stories!
In this interactive photo/story/essay produced by NPR, we hear the story of urban photographer Patricia Evans. Back in the 1980s, after she was beaten and sexually assaulted near a Chicago public housing project, she chose not to run from her fears. Rather, she became a photographer of life in Public Housing.
This is a powerful example of using placed based story sharing in an interactive platform to give voice, power, and representation to voices and communities whom are often not heard.
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is known for his aerial photography of the Earth’s landscapes, but in his film Human, he blends his trademark overview style with simply shot interviews with people from all over the world.
Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge, formerly of Adbusters, recreated a town that doesn’t exist anymore. Part book, part film, part family photo album of a place that’s been lost in time, the National Film Board of Canada’s Welcome to Pine Point website explores the memories of residents from the former mining community of Pine Point, Northwest Territories. Overall, it’s an interactive media exploration of how we remember the past.
In 2012, the original Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek told the story of skiers caught in an avalanche. It did so with an immersive magazine layout that elegantly married media with top-rate journalism.It set a new standard for long-form storytelling on the Web through its use of a magazine-like layout, infinite scroll downs, moving background imagery, and other techniques.
Think you can tell the story of your life in just six words?
Does this sound like a ridiculous question? It turns out it’s a challenge writers and us common folk have been accepting for years. Earnest Hemingway’s six word memoir? It’s rumored he wrote: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Smith, an online magazine compiled six word memoirs from their readers, authors, artists and everyone in between. From it came a book, featured on NPR, called Not Quite What I Was Planning. Some of our favorites from the book:
Painful nerd kid, happy nerd adult. – Linda Williamson Extremely responsible, secretly longed for spontaneity. – Sabra Jennings Watching quietly from every door frame. – Nicole Resseguie
This is an exercise we do with our Digital Storytelling Fellows to introduce the concept of new ways of storytelling; last Spring we had everyone who attended our #IDSP showcase write their own. Check out our instagram (@IDSPmiis) for some of our six word memoirs.
On Thursday, September 24th, the Intercultural Digital Storytelling Project (IDSP) hosted its first event of the year, the 2016 IDSP Fellowship Information Session. The IDSP fellowship is an opportunity for MIIS students participating in J-term immersive learning, to join a cohort of students that will create digital stories inspired by their experiences.
At the session, students used a storytelling technique called #blackoutpoetry to inspire creativity. Armed with only 8 minutes, a newspaper clipping, and a black sharpie, they produced short story poems to introduce themselves and get aquatinted with the culture at IDSP. “At first I was overwhelmed, but once I started it just flowed, and was a lot fun,” said one of the participants.
MIIS student Tom Stagg creates a blackout poem at the IDSP16 info session.
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Storytelling is a powerful tool that can inspire action, empathy, and change. It is no wonder that it is becoming an increasingly sought out communication technique in the social impact and non-profit sectors.
“Digital storytelling is exciting because it uses modern tools and technology to connect us to the common humanity we find through stories. There is so much potential for creativity and collaboration,” said Anna Santos, IDSP Senior Fellow.
The project spans over the Fall, Winter, and Spring semesters, and aims to maximize potential for personal intercultural competency development through peer interaction, self-reflection, design, and digital media. Fellows will be given an ipod Touch to record images, audio and video while on their immersive learning experience. In the Spring semester, the cohort will come together and support each other in creating their own digital stories.
IDSP will be accepting online applications for the 2016 Fellowship until October 8th, 2015 on the IDSP website.
For 2015 project examples, check out the video below:
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