Storytelling
2020 | Qualitative Research | UI Design | Graphic | Interviews
overview
Storytelling as part of the human experience, it outlines each story as a narrative approach and turns an ordinary experience to a meaningful journey.
This project aimed to examine how storytelling roles as a beneficial approach to engage and inspire international university students during the COVID- 19 pandemic by sharing their own experience and gather their collective consciousness to Edinburgh city.
The goal was to investigate how these students considered storytelling as a socializing tool to improve the social network in the city by sharing their story as a new form of communication.
This project aimed to examine how storytelling roles as a beneficial approach to engage and inspire international university students during the COVID- 19 pandemic by sharing their own experience and gather their collective consciousness to Edinburgh city.
The goal was to investigate how these students considered storytelling as a socializing tool to improve the social network in the city by sharing their story as a new form of communication.
An urban archive site in Edinburgh city.
Research
To achieve the practice, I first started to find three disciplines that could cover the whole concept of the project . I discovered the format of the story people tend to share and how they feel about the story of others.
The original thought was to create an interface as a platform, this platform could provide the service of not only receive the stories but also demonstrate it to the public.
The original thought was to create an interface as a platform, this platform could provide the service of not only receive the stories but also demonstrate it to the public.
• Unstructured Interviews
After having the unstructured interviews with interviewees, it seems like people are more likely to share their stories verbally and prefers to receive and see it in visual.
• Card Sorting
After having the unstructured interviews with interviewees, it seems like people are more likely to share their stories verbally and prefers to receive and see it in visual.
Collective Consciousness
In response to the current global circumstances, I eventually decide to focus on people’s reflection in Edinburgh by sharing texts and photographs which they believe represented a memorable experience to them.
By collecting the stories from students , I notice that they tend to write more words than I expected. Once they started to form what they like to share, it often became a good and valuable conversation during the process. It might be a scene that people are familiar within the city or a similar experience they had before.
As a result, this become the purpose of creating the platform, in order to provide an opportunity that people could interact with each other through this online story sharing
By collecting the stories from students , I notice that they tend to write more words than I expected. Once they started to form what they like to share, it often became a good and valuable conversation during the process. It might be a scene that people are familiar within the city or a similar experience they had before.
As a result, this become the purpose of creating the platform, in order to provide an opportunity that people could interact with each other through this online story sharing
Drafting the storyboard.
Support local business
This project also collected local business stories based in Edinburgh to explore the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on them.
Local business stories during the COVID-19 lockdown in Edinburgh.
Result
Overall, this platform attempt to stimulate conversation even we are all lock at home, people can enjoy the stories and photographs online and could also share their reflection to the public by sending the feedback on website. The whole process of the creation also represented my own reflection to the crisis we are all facing but also the love to the city.
Without a doubt, in such times of unprecedented health crisis, the current COVID-19 pandemic challenges us every single day.
Alongside the deep distress felt as many of us have experienced, there is also a growing understanding of the importance of the community and social network. The need for sharing the stories became more important than ever.
Without a doubt, in such times of unprecedented health crisis, the current COVID-19 pandemic challenges us every single day.
Alongside the deep distress felt as many of us have experienced, there is also a growing understanding of the importance of the community and social network. The need for sharing the stories became more important than ever.
