Wednesday 13th Session - Lecture by Gerllinde Schuller

Systematic storytelling format 

- not necessarily linear

- "Designing universal knowledge": works with system of encyclopedia and hyperlink, ability to get ≠ perspectives on data

Methods organisation:

- 5 categories, time (735yrs)

- 2 languages

- hyperlinks

- archive tools

Storytelling graph

- traditional storytelling follows a timeline

- what Gerllinde did, start in the present, and jump back in time, getting a chain reaction of 200 stories, with 2 layers of stories

- inspired by art, visual stories... for instance Trajan's columns, repeats standardized scenes and in a circle

- theatre representing life of amsterdammers based on stats and demographics chose the participants and would perform they day in stage --> Living statistics

Why systematic storytelling?

- method to communicate complex narratives > new storytelling format

- facilitates non-linear reading

- bridges across different media (web, app, print...)

- creates open, flexible systems

- slows down info absorption (navigational aid)

Current projects

-Follow the Money

- The Other Interface

***check out: www.theworldasflatatland.net

Advice for assignment

- keep it small! --> CBS has huge datasets, so take a smaller one (ex. take 5 yrs timeframe instead of 50yrs)

- topic --> research question --> data set

- United Nations --> dying langs

- esperanto

- funneling, maybe focus on one language

--> perhaps Euskera?