The Pararchive Project

“…to help improve the quality of life for residents in care homes by building a sense of community and shared experience through a cooperative exploration of their life history stories. Rather than put these stories on a website, the project seeks to find creative ways to attach stories to objects that are personally meaningful to…

This is because it’s hard to know what images or stories will spark a memory and when. Often it’s the things people pass everyday in their lives — landscapes and landmarks — rather than specific moments. Downie’s own grandmother, 97, has been diagnosed as suffering from dementia. And for her it was not photos of…

Having decided upon a system and how we wanted to test it we returned to the groups to run another workshop. In the exercise pieces of card and post-it notes stood in for the digital objects we’d envisioned, and after a brief explanation participants were encouraged to try and use the system to tell their…

As part of this blog we at Carbon thought we’d start to document some of the process we’ve been going through as part of the project. This is the first in a series of blog posts on our design process As you may know the Pararchive Project has two distinct parts; the first is digital…

Portland based creative agency Instrument collaborated with a team of photographers, writers, video and sound artists to create a multimedia storytelling platform featuring a short film and a series of interactive vignettes that present a portrait of their native Oregon coast as seen through the eyes of a few who cherish it. prote.in/en/feed/2014/06/this-place / thisplacejournal.com

Come and join the Pararchive team at the Connected Communities Festival 2014 in Cardiff on Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd July. We are running a range of exciting activities, all of which are free and open to all (see below for details).  Both the Breakout session and the Gladstone 2013 – Fired Up! Workshop will…

The Cube is a new platform developed by Google’s Creative Lab which allows filmmakers, musicians, artists and other creatives to make interactive films where the viewer controls the narrative structure.  Six films – for example six concurrent scenes, or a music track sung in six different styles – are wrapped around a ‘cube’ which a…

When we hear of wearable technologies that help create new, innovative and often intuitive products that improve our wellbeing in all sorts of life situations, not many of us would instantly think about how archival material would fit in this whole process. This is precisely what Michelle – a lawyer by trade, member of the…