The Pararchive Project

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at the Wuthering Bytes festival, as part of the Tomorrow’s People strand, exploring the future of public service provision and how councils, SMEs and individuals can work together. I thought the story of how we designed Yarn would be an interesting illustration of where communities used collaborative design to…

The New York Times’ experimental Snow Fall story has long been a reference point in our work on Pararchive, largely to avoid producing an application or experience that was loaded with gimmicks which eclipsed the underlying narrative. However, in the year or so since Snow Fall was first revealed, it’s influence and impact on web design…

Google’s Night Walk in Marseille in a beautifully rendered illustration of the possibilities of storytelling with data and the open web. Using a combination of Google’s Maps, Street View, Youtube and Search services, Night Walk takes the viewer on a narrated tour of the Marseille neighbourhood of Cours Julien, famous for its street art. Google’s own data…

Last week saw the release of Storehouse for iPad, a visual storytelling app created by former Apple and Adobe staffers, including members of the iPhoto and Aperture teams. The app reinforces the notion of tablets as more than just consumption devices, but as flourishing creative tools. Storehouse draws on an iPad’s internal photo library as…

Mary Brydon-Miller is director of the University of Cincinnati’s Action Research Center, and Professor of educational and community-based action research within the university’s Education Studies Program. In the summer of 2013, she gave a presentation at the Connected Communities 2013 summit, to talk about community engagement and action research from an international perspective. In this…

Kickstarter’s rapidly become the crowdfunding platform of choice, with well produced video content noted by veterans as the key to a successful fundraising campaign. Every January, the company publishes a beautifully illustrated but very static infographic to summarise the previous year’s achievements. This year they’ve chosen to publish this summary, along with some headline projects, as…

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