CREATING THE IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING DESIGNER

FEST is partner in INSIDE:ACT, an Erasmus+ project coordinated by the University of Florence (UNIFI). It brings together a consortium of 14 organisations across 6 European countries: higher education institutions, cultural organisations, digital enterprises, technology clusters and vocational education and training (VET) centres. They will all work toward a shared goal: developing an innovative curriculum and training framework for the Immersive Storytelling Designer (ISD) in higher education.

After passing this education module a graduated ISD student should be able to mix methods and tools of Design, Performing Arts, Social and Digital Sciences (DASD) and combine narrative elements and media (be it digital, analogue or any hybrid combination) to create an environment for an intuitive, engaging and emotionally resonant user experience.

We are convinced that the learning processes and outcomes in this project are highly relevant for the storytelling sector:

- It recognises the role of storytelling in design processes.

- It adopts storytelling as an innovative instrument for creative learning and development in a recognised HE learning module.

- It focuses on the role of narratives as an essential element for experience building and meaning making.

- It builds academic knowledge and expertise on what storytelling can offer in these processes and what these processes can offer to storytelling. 

- It leads to additional job/entrepreneurial opportunities for storytellers in this context.

If you are interested in new horizons for storytelling, in concepts like transformative experience, design for immersive storytelling, new narrative environments, value transfer, ... we invite you check on the project website at: https://www.insideact.eu/.

For more questions: festeurope@gmail.com