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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

Transnational Digital Creation Workshop with l’Université de Paris 8

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.

Gathering Stories: Digital Storytelling Workshop for High School Students

Gathering Stories: Digital Storytelling Workshop for High School Students

Transformational Storytelling

CES is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation's New ERA Women Writers Grant again this fall of 2022. These funds will allow us to offer a second week-long summer workshop - Gathering Stories: Digital Storytelling Workshop for Young Women in 11th-12th grades -  July 10-14, 2023, as we did in July 2021.

Story-driven Learning in Engineering and STEM Classrooms

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

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.