A great mystery of academia is that design and storytelling are kept so unnaturally apart, taught in distantly separated university departments – that is if storytelling as an art form is even addressed at all. Storytelling and design are more than related, they are intertwined and complementary, reinforcing one another. This will be a storytelling workshop for designers who want to know how to tell stories to support design. Participants will learn to tell stories, apply storytelling to their design practice, and become reacquainted with the precious art that informs storytelling more than any other - the art of listening.
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Presenter
Kevin Brooks is a Researcher and Experience Designer for Motorola and a professional oral storyteller. At Motorola Kevin researches and designs new user interface technologies and expresses these technologies as connected user-centered experiences using a variety of media. As a writer and performing oral storyteller, Kevin tells personal tales from his urban childhood of the 60´s through to his present day parenthood. His stories for adults and family audiences resonate with humor and poignancy, and he has been a featured performer at many storytelling festivals, conferences and other venues. In 2006 he released a CD of his stories entitled Kiss of Summer. Kevin received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where his area of research was computational narrative and interactive cinema. Kevin has also studied engineering, computer science, creative writing and film production as an undergraduate, receiving a BS in Communications from Drexel University and an MA in Documentary Film from Stanford University. Kevin has several published papers and has given numerous workshops on storytelling and interactive story design for designers, engineers and storytellers alike. He is currently co-authoring a book entitled Storytelling for User Experience Design, anticipated end of 2009.
Event Details:
Free and and open to the public, however, registration is required.
Location: MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Room: Tower Building, Room 312 (through the Computer Arts Center, all the way at the end of the hall)
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Directions: By car | By T | Campus map (PDF)
Additional Parking and Driving Directions
Parking will be available to attendees who drive in the Ward Street lot if you enter the lot between 5:45pm and 6:45pm. If you’re driving, take a close look at a Google Map of the area, finding the Ward Street Lot can be tricky the first time.
If you’re traveling west on Huntington Avenue from Downtown, as you pass the main campus on your right, take a left at the light at the Longwood Avenue intersection, crossing over the trolley tracks. Go straight to the stop sign and turn left, then immediately turn right onto Ward Street. MassArt’s parking lot is short distance ahead on the left.
If you’re traveling east on Huntington Avenue from Bringham Circle, take a right at the light at the Longwood Avenue intersection, then a quick left and right and you’re on Ward Street. MassArt’s parking lot is short distance ahead on the left.