_Let’s Not Forget the Climate Crisis

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Here are exemplar projects using innovative media approaches bringing the urgency of climate change into our everyday lives.

_The Internet is Reality

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by Hugues Sweeney

We interpret the world around us, we seek and capture reality, we steal bits of life that occur outside our devices. We press “rec”…

_Trailblazers, Technologies and Truth(s)

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by Katerina Cizek

Documentarians have always been at the forefront of innovation in form and content, as William Uricchio has so eloquently highlighted with…

_Documentary Games

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by The MIT Game Lab

The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"

_Constraints

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by Eran Hadas and Udi Ben-Arie

Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…

_Sound stories

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by Francesca Panetta

Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.

_Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact

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by Lina Srivastava

They use their art to create avenues for political and social framing, empathy and change, or direct action. And they set a cultural stage…

_Caspar’s All-Time Favorites

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by Caspar Sonnen

For the launch of the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s _docubase at IDFA 2013, Caspar Sonnen compiled a list of his all-time favorite interactive…

_Transmedia 101

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Innovative projects showcasing the potential of transmedia approaches in documentary, curated by MIT Open Documentary Lab.

_The Interactive Documentary: my life, my passion, my playlist

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by Arnau Gifreu

Interactive digital media have had an impact on the logics of production, exhibition and reception of traditional audiovisual documentaries.

_Korsakow

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by Florian Thalhofer

Open-source application for creating web docs and nonlinear, interactive narratives.

_Documentary as Co-Creation

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by Mandy Rose

In the context of networked culture the ground beneath documentary has shifted. Cheap, accessible, and mobile production tools make the…

_Re-Enchanting Spaces: Participatory Location-Based Media

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by Sue Ding

Location-based media—physically or digitally linked to physical locations, conceptually connected to these locations, and designed to…

_Collective Wisdom

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by Co-Creation Studio

The Co-Creation studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab published Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines…

_The Personal is the Political

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by Paisley Smith

Paisley Smith shares which personal stories (across platforms) have impacted her over the years.