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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

Immersive Antarctica

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Immersive Antarctica is an InnovateUK funded project, enabling the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) to make its unique Antarctic bases, heritage, climate, and archival stories available to a global audience through the use of immersive technologies and the integration of 3D visualisation, gaming, film and audio-visual archive. This collaboration between UKAHT and StoryLab aims to demonstrate ... 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

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

Vulnerable Selves

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Vulnerability
Dual Perspectives, Immersive Media and the Narrative of Vulnerability In this project, StoryLab critically explore the lived experience and interpretation of vulnerability and investigate the possibilities and limitations of using immersive media through an observational case study of emerging filmmakers. Situated within ‘me too’ and representation in the media, the project explores how gender inequalities ... Read more

Could Try Harder

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Could Try Harder
An Audiovisual Investigation into Capturing and Creating a Shared Memory Experience Sophie Jackson’s research investigates ‘memory moments’ through the capture and creation of shared memory experience. It utilizes school reports as artefacts to trigger central memory, documented through a process of participant interviews forming the basis of a series of individual films. In doing so, ... Read more