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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
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.
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.