SPATIAL STORYTELLING | WORKSHOPS
Interactive workshops for institutions, community groups, & corporate clients that sit at the intersection of STEAM, cultural heritage & spatial storytelling.
HAPPY PLACE
Virtual Reality
The Happy Place VR workshop offers an introduction to how spatial storytelling can create spaces that allow us to know through feeling. The outcomes are often based in participant’s cultural heritage, but a Happy Place can be anywhere - real or imaginary, figurative or abstract. Participants are taken through a series of exercises to imagine and describe their Happy Place, and then the group is tasked with collaborating to create one person’s Happy Place in virtual reality.
No prior knowledge of the technology or design skills are needed, the workshop offers an open space for playful, low-fi collaboration. Participants can choose which aspect of the experience they would like to work on - from background environment design to details, sound design to storytelling.
Delivered for institutions including The Royal College of Art
All materials provided
Half Day / Full Day including VR headset hire
Up to 20 participants
THE LIBRARY OF LOST STORIES
Virtual Reality
The Library of Lost Stories is a workshop & ongoing creative project that explores how we can hold space for marginalised histories and stories that are not so often told. Inspired by the A Family Who Lost A Child VR project, the Library is a virtual space that people can add their stories to - as well as share and experience each others if they would like.
Participants are asked to bring heirlooms or memory objects that represent their story, and then are taken through a series of storytelling and visual prompts to craft their scene. The workshop has a particular focus on creating sensory environments and how we can use colour, space and audio to augment the viewer’s imagination.
Participants don’t need any previous technology or artistic experience, the workshop is designed for people of any ability to create a space that is meaningful for them. Spaces can be created individually or collaboratively.
Stories aim to be between 2-5 minutes long, and participants can choose whether they would like their story to become part of the public archive or keep it private.
Up to 20 participants
Full Day or Weekend (2 days)
VR headset hire
All materials provided
CITY PORTALS
Augmented Reality
City Portals reimagines the cityscape as a series of doorways into unseen stories and forgotten histories, of people, place, love and heartbreak, the things that make us human. As city-dwellers, we often feel we need to travel to see the world - this workshop reminds us that instead, we can stand still and re-learn how to see.
Using augmented reality and Google Maps, participants are encouraged to find a sign close to where they would like to place their story. This could be a street sign, a business sign, something that in itself has its own meaning. It could represent a local or a global brand that links to the story, it could be the doorway to a house or a symbol that represents a place that is now forbidden.
Photographing or taking a screenshot of the sign, participants can transform it into a portal, overlaying augmented reality stories and graphics, creating a digital overlay to a physical environment that exists in parallel, creating layers to the city that hold space for all our stories.
The portals can be brought together to create new maps that can be followed as physical or digital walking tours, through which visitors can experience personal stories of a place and its people, and locals a playful way to share the stories of their city.
In-person workshops can create this in physical locations, remote workshops can use google maps to create virtual worlds.
Up to 20 participants
Half day or full day
Smartphones required with Adobe Aero installed
All other materials provided
