StoryCenter have just published the recordings of the virtual sessions at the 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference, including my opening talk on “Listening as a Duty. How Digital Storytelling transformed my life… and many others”.
This is the link to the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOMFplNt-JE_F2VbDjS8NN6x-2TxlCtdg
How Digital Storytelling Transformed My Life… And Many Others
I am delighted to be one of the keynote speakers at the 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference that coincides with the 1st International Conference on Social Technologies of Memories, co-hosted by the Museu da Pessoa in Brazil and StoryCenter.
My talk will focus on experiencing the privilege to learn every day from everyday life experiences for my own development and the development of Digital Storytelling as a practice. I will go through lesson learnt from a diverse range of international projects as a way of framing the duty of listening as everyday activism.
For more information on the Conference: https://dst2025.org/
The University of Otago, New Zealand, just published on their YouTube channel the video recording of one of the seminars I gave during my visit in April.
You can read the abstract of the presentation here:
The benefits of the story-telling/story-listening loop within participatory research
Participatory storytelling is an enriching and powerful research approach that enables the researcher and the participant to shift power dynamics and establish new ways of working to achieve (together!) more meaningful and long-lasting results. Storytelling is an effective way for people to connect, share knowledge, and generate change. Even more when the story-telling/story-listening loop is prioritised during this creative process. As our world becomes more diverse, it is crucial for academia and cultural institutions to promote engagement with different perspectives. Stories have a unique power to build empathy, trust, and understanding among communities. However, it is important to recognise that there isn’t just one truth or perspective. Like Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says, “relying on a single story can risk a critical misunderstanding”.
In this seminar, we’ll explore the concept of co-created “Story Work” and how it involves collaborating to create stories that reflect diverse experiences and truths. We’ll also look at how storytelling can be used in research to foster engagement and inform practice and policy.
This seminar aims to address these questions:
How can digital storytelling be adapted globally while staying true to local values?
Is collaborative storytelling a solution to exclusion and marginalisation?
How do we differentiate between different storytelling practices while maintaining their ethos and core principles?
Antonia Liguori / Participatory Storytelling 