Sustainable & Resilient Communities

Environment & Climate Change

REVIVE

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REVIVE (Community-centred language REVItalisation powered by heritage-led storytellling and digital innoVation in Europe) is a €3M project funded by Horizon Europe, led by the StoryLab Research Institute at ARU. The project brings together an international consortium of European academic and industry partners from the UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Estonia. The aim of ... Read more

Let’s Go Fly the Kite

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"Let’s Go Fly the Kite" is a National Heritage Lottery Fund project led by Together Culture, in partnership with the StoryLab Research Institute and the Cambridge Room.  This citizen science project explores the history of the Kite area in Cambridge and aims to create a roadmap for how its residents and visitors can build upon ... Read more

Heritage-led Resilience to Conflict, Scarcity and Climate Change With Syrian Refugees in Jordan

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Click here to explore the digital diagrams About Cultural heritage can enhance resilience and integration amongst displaced communities forced to flee from their own countries due to climate change, scarcity and conflict. These factors can, in combination, result in devastating consequences for communities and populations, including displacement, death and loss of cultural connection and identity, ... Read more

Italia Terremotata

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Italia Terremotata
This interactive documentary combines 3D visualisation and multi-modal storytelling to tell the story of Senerchia terremotata, that is, the earthquake that devastated the Irpinia region (South Italy) in 1980. Forty years after one of the most devastating earthquakes in Italian history, Italia Terremotata investigates its long-term impact on rural communities in Irpinia (South Italy). Italian ... Read more

Simulated Nature

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Urban/Nature
Simulated Nature Using digital technology to promote better mental health Decades of research has shown that exposure to natural environments – such as forests and parks – can promote improved mental health. Drawing on this research, StoryLab and Professor Viren Swami have collaborated to evaluate the extent to which “simulated nature” – natural environments in ... Read more

Reviving Kusunda

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The Kusunda Project is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary collaboration between academic researchers and artistic expression, aimed at exploring the integrated use of multimodal storytelling and immersive visualisation for the revitalisation of the endangered heritage and language of the Kusunda Indigenous community in Nepal. By evaluating two works – an interactive virtual reality experience and a short ... Read more

RELOADED

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About Co-created with secondary-school students, RELOADED explores how immersive storytelling can foster stronger emotional connections and enhance understanding of knife crime among 14- and 15-year-olds.  The VR immersive film – RELOADED – leverages innovative creative practice workflows within an interdisciplinary landscape to maximise the creativity and efficiency of producing stories for meaningful, impactful, and attitude-changing ... 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

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