Story: Representation and Process

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Information about the class

This is the first course in the proposed MAS undergraduate core sequence. It's focus is story: the presentation of information or experience so as to inform and transform. It's foundation is the realization that storytelling is not just entertainment or `window dressing' but is the foundation of how we understand and interpret. Story is ubiquitous in communcation: even if we attempt to present some `raw fact,' it will be fit into a story when received.

We believe that the best way to understand something is by making it and in this course, we teach how stories work by having you `make' stories in a variety of different forms. We take as our model the `studio' courses in the arts and architecture: learning happens by an interleaved process of construction and criticism. Projects are judged by a jury drawn from laboratory faculty and staff, outside visitors, and some of our sponsors whose daily work is making the stories we see every day.

Here is the course syllabus. Here is the reading list.

Glance over students' works below. There are web pages like you've never seen!

The primary lecturers for the class are
Glorianna Davenport (gid@media.mit.edu) and
Ken Haase (haase@media.mit.edu).

Projects in 1994

Homepages of Participants in 1994

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Stephen Gilbert, stepheng@media.mit.edu (1/10/95)