projects

Base E

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Base E
Collaboration between UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, British Antarctic Survey and StoryLab Base E is a proof of principle interactive Virtual Reality (VR) experience that combines 3D visualisation, gaming and film archive that enables users to explore and engage with the story of Base E, a British research station based on Stonington Island, in the south ... Read more

The Frontline

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FoodCult

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Brewing
Food is more than itself…it is identity, and culture, and history. It is the most important matter in our lives… it is transcendent. ~ Bill Buford Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland circa 1550-1650 Exploring the period c.1550-1650, one of major economic development, unprecedented intercultural contact, but also of conquest, colonisation and war, it focuses ... Read more

The David Parr House Film Project

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david parr house
In 1886 a small house in Gwydir Street, Cambridge was bought by David Parr, a working-class decorative artist. So began his forty-year project to decorate his modest home in the style of the grand interiors he worked on every day. After Parr’s death in 1927, his granddaughter Elsie Palmer came to live in the house ... Read more

Havens East Online Exhibition

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Havens East
Telling the stories of the child refugees and those who helped them escape the Spanish Civil War Access the Online Storybook here. About New Routes, Old Roots at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is an arts-based research network focusing on contemporary and historical experiences of exile and migration. In 2020, they received a National Lottery Heritage ... Read more

Arriving

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Arrival
Objects & Discoveries Portrait and soundscape driven project exploring migration Access the online storybook here ‘Arriving at a new place’ is a core aspect of migration, but stories of arrival are not limited to the migration experience. We all have stories of arrival (e.g. school, workplace, new home) to tell, reflecting commonalities of human perceptions, ... Read more

Respite From Reality

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Jo has been rowing on The Cam since 1983. Winner of two rowing ‘Blues’ for Cambridge and a gold medal the first Women’s Henley Regatta she shared her passion of rowing and the river with her son Alex who started rowing at the age of 10. Now, they both prepare young rowers for competing on the river in ... Read more

Creative Practice Methods (CPM)

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Creative Practice Methodology Workshops
StoryLab Engages in a Continuous Exploration of Creative Practice Methods As part of this project, StoryLab runs a series of workshops addressing creative practice methods. These events produce cross-disciplinary conversations through roundtable discussions, presentations, and technical demonstrations in the field of creative practice research that attracts researchers as well as graduate students. Events CPM6 | ... Read more

The Golden Window

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baby with tune
There is a window in which you can change the death signals to the brain cells, cooling stops that signalling process.  When you re-warm the baby, the brain cells no longer receive that signal to go down the death pathway. Shot entirely during 72 hours of opportunity, The Golden Window tells the story of medically induced ... Read more

Machine Seeing

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StoryLab are exploring and addressing a series of questions and challenges on existing and emerging creative technologies. Innovations in media technologies have opened up new ways of witnessing the world. These emerging modes of “machine seeing” raise novel questions about user experience, renaissance and role of synergistic creative tools such as sound, changing workflows and ... Read more