Narratives Resources

What are the stories that inspire transformative changes?

"Emergency narratives are important, yet new thinking and collective action works best with narratives that encourage, inspire, and show pathways to future possibilities. This video by The Collective Leadership Institute is about the stories that inspire transformative change and how they are curated." View

Is Immersive Storytelling The New Marketing Frontier?

"With recent technological advancements like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree videos, which we’ve used in some of the campaigns we’ve developed at Imaginovation, storytelling is becoming more immersive and powerful than ever.” View

Maja Essebo, ‘Storying COVID-19: Fear, digitalisation, and the transformational potential of storytelling’

“Crises are amazing story proliferators. We tell tales of the crises that have been, of the crises yet to come, and most of all of the crises unfolding in the here and now. In trying to braid rapidly evolving global events with our personal lives and experiences, stories are equally a means of communication as they are coping mechanisms.” View

What is Immersive Storytelling?

An interview with Margaret Kerrison, a writer whose career "spans television, film, digital media, games, brand storytelling, location-based entertainment, and immersive experiences." View

G Liveley et. al., ‘Futures literacy through narrative’

“This paper explores the particular role of narrative in developing futures literacy. As literacy denotes the ability to express and absorb meaning through language, enabling individuals to parse information and relate to others, then futures literacy also needs to draw on the insights of narrative to embrace its full emancipatory potential.” View

JM Wittmayer et. al., ‘Narratives of Change: How social innovation initiatives construct societal transformation’

“Alongside current policy discourses on the transformative potentials of social innovation, social innovation initiatives also construct their own accounts of how society can be transformed and by whom. Building on state-of-the-art futures studies and narrative research and their linkages, this article unfolds these narratives of change (NoC) by social innovation initiatives.” View

It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

Francesca Polletta’s It Was Like a Fever sets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social movements. Drawing on cases ranging from sixteenth-century tax revolts to contemporary debates about the future of the World Trade Center site, Polletta argues that stories are politically effective not when they have clear moral messages, but when they have... View

Neil Gaiman and Yuval Noah Harari talk to Sevgil Musayeva

From the Hay Festival, a discussion about storytelling, imagining the future, and the war in Ukraine. The Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and the children’s book Unstoppable Us talks to the English writer of science fiction, comics and screenplays. Chaired by Sevgil Musayeva, editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda. View

The Imaginary Crisis

"We are in the midst of a very urgent, real, global and deadly crisis. But as the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis, and one which is scarcely visible: the deteriorating state of our shared social imagination." Demos Helsinki Fellow Geoff Mulgan's paper explores the deficit of social... View

Webinar with Alina Siegfried

Highlights from our webinar with Alina Siegfried, storyteller, narrative strategist, and spoken word artist. Alina talks about the ways in which 'storytelling and narrative shape the world around us', and the new possibilities we can imagine through new myths. View

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