Immersive StoryLab Podcast

Feb 18 2022

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Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive technologies.
Immersive StoryLab has been created by BRiGHTBLACK's Simon Wilkinson and Myra Appannah in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, UK. The Immersive StoryLab course is an internationally touring 5 day critical thinking workshop around the future of story. The podcast is a distillation of some of our thinking on the subject.

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Episode 07 - Kinaesthetics

Feb 18 2022 55 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.In this episode we are discussing how we tell stories to the kinaesthetic senses of taste, smell and touch, referencing the works we have created in the past decade which have experimented in this area from early experiments using kinaesthetic effects with VR in 2010 to automation in the 2020s

Episode 06 - Onboarding / OffBoarding

Jul 21 2020 48 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.In this episode we are discussing approaches to seamlessly transitioning audiences from their everyday lives into your immersive world and back again

Episode 05 - Living Culture

Jun 03 2020 68 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.In this episode we are discussing the huge shift towards culture which can be 'lived' rather than consumed.

Episode X - The Corona Emergency Broadcast

Mar 24 2020 12 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.We are in crisis, now more than ever culture and creativity have a role to play. Maybe this is the moment when our cultural institutions, our venues and artists should be reaching out to as many people as possible, to view audiences as more than passive consumers of content and instead engage them in d

Episode 03 - The Chemistry of Happiness and Games 4 Good

Mar 07 2020 30 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.What can we learn from the popularity of video games? And what are games designers doing to make the world a better place?

Episode 02 - Speculative Design

Jan 29 2020 19 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.Episode 2 - Speculative design

Episode 01 - Cut Scenes

Dec 31 2019 20 mins

Thoughts on the future of story in a world of immersive and playful technologies.Episode 1 - Cut Scenes and the legacy of cinema