_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,…
_Tablet-ready Interactive Docs
8Tablets provide a visually beautiful and rich experience that brings audiences closer to the material, make it easy to engage with deeper…
_The Internet is Reality
5We interpret the world around us, we seek and capture reality, we steal bits of life that occur outside our devices. We press “rec”…
_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…
_Pushing Boundaries
5Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…
_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…
_The New Visual Documentary
12The new visual documentary is different from what already exists in the well-defined editorial, film, broadcasting, and art contexts, both…
_Documentary Games
10The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"
_Sound stories
5Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_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…
_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…
_Collective Wisdom
15The Co-Creation studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab published Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines…
_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,…
_Energy, Economy and Culture
5Can interactive docs bring social issues alive differently and in ways that more directly make connections for users between their own lives…