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Creating Hybrid Storytelling Artifacts with a Collaboratory Approach
Innovative Maker Trends in Art & Design Practices: Art in Society, Heritage Narratives and Hybrid Laboratories (Maker Trends) is a collaborative effort that seeks to bring together art and design, and education and heritage communities to develop practices that lead to development of new hybrid storytelling artifacts. These artifacts will link memories from the virtual domain with the material domain of everyday life.
The work is based on already existing collaboration between the Aalto University Media Lab Helsinki (FINLAND), RIXC New Media Center and MPLAB at University of Liepaja (LATVIA) and Art in Society Research Group (NORWAY). The work involves development of a curriculum to use digital and social crafts, growths and manufacturing techniques with heritage and storytelling. The activities include workshops that are targeted to the creative and memory sectors – including general publics, artists, art and design teachers, and students. Our method for generating the curriculum is a collaborative laboratory (collaboratory) approach.
In our work we propose to investigate aspects of digital mementos (both personal and institutional) and tease out the links between physical artefacts, memory and everyday narratives and storytelling.
We seek to:
1. Promote new hybrid practices that result in new categories of narrative-oriented digital artefacts and devices that link the virtual domain of digital memories with the material expressive realm of human life and can be used in storytelling. These artefacts are created through a combination of 3D fabrication techniques and digital design that makes use of sensor and actuators.
2. Promote the accessibility to knowledge about 3D modelling fabrication and digital design techniques for creative practitioners, memory institutions, and everyday citizens. In this manner a cross section of society that is not directly associated with institutions of higher learning will benefit.
3. Continue to further develop already existing human-centred design practices and technologies that can be used by practitioners involved in creative and memory sectors.
The importance of the results is evident in how the knowledge cuts across many sectors including those of art, design, computer science, the humanities and heritage.
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Hybrid Labs project is funded by Nordplus and Renewable Futures Network.
