storytelling

New publication: Participatory Network Mapping for Public Action

B. Brayshay and A. de Moor (2024). Participatory Network Mapping for Public Action, in T. Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp.371-380

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Abstract:

In this chapter, we present findings from a participatory mapping project undertaken in the Black Caribbean community in the London Borough of Lambeth commissioned to create a Systems Map of community support available to unemployed people and identify the barriers and leverage points to their economic engagement. We introduce the case study and go on to outline our design philosophy to enable the community to find its voice using participatory mapping and storytelling. We show how we applied this philosophy in the Lambeth case study.… Read more...

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New publication – Community Digital Storytelling for Collective Intelligence: towards a Storytelling Cycle of Trust

S. Copeland and A. de Moor (2017). Community Digital Storytelling for Collective Intelligence: towards a Storytelling Cycle of Trust. AI & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0744-1 (download preprint or read article online).

Abstract

Digital storytelling has become a popular method for curating community, organisational, and individual narratives. Since its beginnings over 20 years ago, projects have sprung up across the globe, where authentic voice is found in the narration of lived experiences. Contributing to a Collective Intelligence for the Common Good, the authors of this paper ask how shared stories can bring impetus to community groups to help identify what they seek to change, and how digital storytelling can be effectively implemented in community partnership projects to enable authentic voices to be carried to other stakeholders in society.… Read more...

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The Tilburg story of knowledge sharing for social innovation

Last October, I gave an invited talk at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, USA. Topic of my talk was “Knowledge Sharing for Social Innovation: The Dutch Tilburg Regional Case”. I published the slides of my talk in a previous post. In the meantime, however, with the help of the good people of Rutgers’ IT staff, I worked on creating an indexed YouTube version of the video recording that was made of my presentation. In it, you can find the Tilburg story of knowledge sharing for social innovation. It contains the slides combined with my presenting them, plus a very lively Q&A with the audience afterwards. In this YouTube video, you can watch me tell the full story.… Read more...

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