_Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact
14They use their art to create avenues for political and social framing, empathy and change, or direct action. And they set a cultural stage…
_Trailblazers, Technologies and Truth(s)
12Documentarians have always been at the forefront of innovation in form and content, as William Uricchio has so eloquently highlighted with…
_The Visceral Web
5The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…
_Pushing Boundaries
5Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…
_Collective Wisdom
15The Co-Creation studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab published Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_Let’s Not Forget the Climate Crisis
10Here are exemplar projects using innovative media approaches bringing the urgency of climate change into our everyday lives.
_Mapping the Intersection of Two Cultures: Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism
35The projects on this playlist mark the convergence of interactive documentary and digital journalism; two forms that, despite their distinctive…
_Re-Enchanting Spaces: Participatory Location-Based Media
9Location-based media—physically or digitally linked to physical locations, conceptually connected to these locations, and designed to…
_ACCESSIBILITY FOR IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY MEDIA
4The Access and Disability Innovation Working Group at MIT Open Doc Lab and Co-Creation Studio brings together emergent media storytellers,…
_The Living Documentary
12I do not see interactive technology as a tool, but as a process that brings cultural, aesthetic, and political changes. Within this context,…
_Harsh Wonder: The Mystery & Reality of Being Alive
10I think a lot about this Mary Oliver quote: “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt…
_Let’s play with documentary!
11Since the very beginning of cinema, documentary has played. With its characters (Nanook of the North), with reality (all modern mixes between…
_The Personal is the Political
7Paisley Smith shares which personal stories (across platforms) have impacted her over the years.
_Full Spectrum Documentary on the Climb
15Since 2008, AIR has been cultivating an emerging documentary form: “full spectrum public media.” Such creations extend beyond the…
