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Engaged Storycraft
Storycraft is the practical application of unique combinations of story and technologies of making.
The Center for Engaged Storycraft is an interdisciplinary center working and playing with story-based creativity, research, and technical craft. Based in the English Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology, CES brings together experts in story creation, technical media practices, narrative studies, education, interactive media, game design and development, story-based analytics, and story-driven pedagogies.
Projects
Story-driven Learning in Engineering and STEM Classrooms
Transformational Storytelling
Have you ever wondered how story might provide impactful ways to engage students in STEM learning? This project, led by Clark Hochgraf, Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology, Jeanne Christman, Associate Professor of Engineering Technology, and Laura Shackelford, Professor of English at RIT, focuses on developing workshops, classroom modules, and faculty development opportunities.
Fantastic Folktales from The Ghanaian Savannah - ebook and online intermedia archive project
Interactive Storytelling
Growing out of several workshops and exchanges with Dr. Helen Atawube Yitah, Professor of English and Dean of the School of Languages, University of Ghana, Accra, this project explores the potential of digital technologies to enhance understanding of oral, written, and multimedia storytelling practices generated at distinct cultural sites around the world.
Sculptures in the Air Project
Embodied Story Practices
“Sculptures in the Air” is a project supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Transnational Digital Creation Workshop with l’Université de Paris 8
Interactive Storytelling
Annually, since the fall semester of 2020, this Transnational Digital Creation Workshop, bringing together small teams of RIT graduate and advanced undergraduate students and graduate students at l’Université de Paris 8, has allowed students to develop creative digital installations of their own design.