Reading Time: 10 minutes Immersive project inspires a new generation of readers and new ways of reading One to One Development Trust is an award winning arts organisation based in Wakefield, UK, led by Judi Alston and Andy Campbell. One to One’s mission is to use digital technologies to engage communities in projects that push the boundaries of creativity. … Read more »
Article Archive: Projects
Micro-mapping Apartheid: Archives, Stories and AR
David A. Wallace, Siddique Motala
Reading Time: 10 minutes We are two academics who met in Cape Town when our children became friends. Conversations around our shared interests in history, technology and Cape Town’s District Six got us speculating about social justice pedagogies in our respective disciplines. Our preliminary discussions revealed many parallels in our approaches but also intriguing distinctions, enough to seed a… Read more »
Designing a VR Experience in a Covid-19 World
Michaela Pnacekova
Reading Time: 11 minutes In September 2019, five months before the pandemic, I moved to Toronto to begin a PhD at York University. I had been to the city before, and as I was a new international student I thought I would make new social connections in school. However, in February 2020 the world transformed into its virtual ‘metaverse’… Read more »
There Is No ‘I’ In Island
Donna Hancox
Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2021, I attended the 10 Days on the Island festival in lutruwita/Tasmania as part of a research project exploring the social impact of the creative arts in Regional Australia. On my second day at the festival, I went to a small workshop Reaching Global Audiences with Local Storytelling led by Catherine Pettman from Rummin… Read more »
Changing the Record: Thoughts from a European music and migration project
Abigail Gardner
Reading Time: 4 minutes Think of a song or piece of music that is important to you. What happens when you hear it? Does it take you somewhere else and bring you back? Are you saddened by it? Does it transport you away from the everyday? What is it about this song that is important? This last question lies… Read more »
Listening in to detention during lockdown
Dylan Bird
Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s August 2020 in Melbourne, Australia – roughly a month into what would become one of the world’s longest COVID-19 inspired lockdowns, at 111 days. I’m out for my daily run along the Merri Creek, a serpentine trail winding through the city’s north. Normally quiet at this time of the week, it’s bustling with people,… Read more »
Hyper-listening to the City
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Reading Time: 8 minutes Walking through a city without direction and following its sounds, may uncover unknown territories of urban experience. Without a concrete navigational strategy, the listening trail might be more productive than a planned urban journey from A to B, when it comes to reconnecting with the city more intimately, heightened in a migratory context. Such a… Read more »
Storytelling in 360° Sound: Audio Orchestrator
Thomas Hetherington
Reading Time: 4 minutes BBC Research and Development is the home of technological research and broadcast innovation at the BBC – behind innovations from Ceefax right up to modern day standards like UHD. One of the ways we continue to innovate is by experimenting with and exploring storytelling formats; from the thousand outcomes of branching narratives to exploring other… Read more »
Designing an interactive audio narrative for children
Inga Breede
Reading Time: 11 minutes “Alexa, open The Messlins” says one of my kids out loud to the smart speaker setup in our living room. After eight months of research, design and production, I was about to witness my children interacting with my voice-enabled audio story for the very first time. With a background in performance and media production, I… Read more »
Adaptive Podcasting & Rabbit Holes Collective: Interview with Ian Forrester
Weronika Dwornik
Reading Time: 9 minutes We talk to Ian Forrester, a Senior Firestarter at BBC R&D, who has been developing innovative adaptive podcasting technology and working on its potential applications alongside artists and creative professionals from the Rabbit Holes Collective. Through their work, the collective aims to ‘constructively disrupt’ and reimagine possibilities for digital collaboration by developing ideas in immersive… Read more »