_ACCESSIBILITY FOR IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY MEDIA

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by Access and Disability Innovation Working Group

The Access and Disability Innovation Working Group at MIT Open Doc Lab and Co-Creation Studio brings together emergent media storytellers,…

_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.

_Tablet-ready Interactive Docs

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by Chris Dymond

Tablets provide a visually beautiful and rich experience that brings audiences closer to the material, make it easy to engage with deeper…

_Confinement

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.

_In Search of Truth

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by Kamal Sinclair

I’m fascinated by the relationship of “point-of-view” to our understanding of truth. I’m amazed by how vehemently we hold on to…

_Interactive Documentary: My Favorite Latin Projects

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by Arnau Gifreu

Canada and France are always going to be the pioneering leaders in the production of interactive documentaries. It seems that other countries,…

_Energy, Economy and Culture

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by Patricia Aufderheide

Can interactive docs bring social issues alive differently and in ways that more directly make connections for users between their own lives…

_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…

_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…

_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…

_The Visceral Web

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by Elaine McMillion Sheldon

The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…

_Harsh Wonder: The Mystery & Reality of Being Alive

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by Wendy Levy

I 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…

_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…

_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.

_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…