There are a myriad of place-based storytelling projects online, including those with an emphasis public and social housing. Connect to these projects, resources, organisations, publications and other relevant online spaces.
AustraliaArt and Wellbeing
www.ozco.gov.au
Authors: Deborah Mills and Paul Brown
Ideas and case studies demonstrating connections between community cultural development and government 'wellbeing' initiatives. Includes a dedicated chapter on public housing arts and cultural initiatives.
Australian Centre for Moving Image BIG hART Bonnyrigg Living Communities Project Kensington Public Housing Estate & Relocated Project Leaving Minto Research Report Living Streets Project Richmond Housing Estate Swapping Lives Tall Storeez - Directing the Hero Within UsMob Virus Media Capture Wales Center for Digital Storytelling Community Museum Project Container Project Hi8us Projects Limited Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Lee Tung Street Project PlaceStories Proboscis
www.acmi.net.au
Digital and screen-based art centre in Federation Square in Melbourne. Oversees the Memory Grid project, an imaginative short film and digital storytelling.
www.bighart.org
BIG hART re-engages marginalised communities and individuals through arts-based projects, and has worked in public housing estates.
www.housing.nsw.gov.au
This project aims to make Bonnyrigg safer and more appealing by improving services and providing residents with better opportunities; supporting the local community to build its strengths, skills and overall capacity; renewing the housing and public areas and achieving better integration of social and private housing within the community.
www.melbourne.vic.gov.au
Kensington in inner Melbourne has a 40-year-old estate comprising half the suburb with 5,000 residents and a multicultural make-up. The decision in 1998 to demolish most of the estate and rebuild with a public/private housing mix affected hundreds of families, some of whom had lived on the estate for more than 30 years. The Relocated cultural project was initiated, with two community artists commissioned to work collaboratively with residents over 18-months. Also published as a book.
Commissioned by the Minto Resident Action Group, this report was instrumental in the campaign to improve the Minto redevelopment conditions. Copies are available from Rosali Harland, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre
ph: 9772 6482 / R.Harland@uws.edu.au
www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/thelivingstreetsprogram.htm
Uses community and cultural development strategies within specific streets of Liverpool to create a sense of place, and promote liveability, safety and amenity.
www.yarraweb.infoxchange.net.au/public_housing/richmond_estate.htm
The Richmond housing estate in Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs is one of the longest-standing examples of an integrated arts program within a community health centre addressing the concerns of housing estate communities.
www.sbs.com.au/swappinglives
50 minute documentary about an Indonesion and Australian teenager who swapped lives for a month armed with a video camera. The online site has 17 hours of footage available.
www.tallstoreez.com
'Directing the Hero Within' is one of Australia's largest digital storytelling projects for young people.
www.usmob.com.au
Uses online characters and friendships to spark an exchange of culture, creativity and experience between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.
www.virusmedia.com.au
Specialises in strong stories from unusual places.
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/digitalstorytelling
A website dedicated to digital stories made by people across the UK, in workshops run by the BBC.
www.storycenter.org
The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.
www.hkcmp.org/cmp
Hong Kong based curatorial team exploring indigenous creativity, visual and public culture through the collection and interpretation of artifacts and visual evidence.
www.container-project.net
A community-led technology and arts initiative in the Palmers Cross district of Clarendon, Kingston, Jamaica.
www.hi8us.co.uk
Hi8us gives young people across the UK the opportunity to gain experience of innovative media production, and a chance to tell their stories.
www.hurricanearchive.org
The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University's Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American History and other partners, organised this project.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Tung_Street
Lee Tung Street, known as the Wedding Card Street by the locals, is located in Hong Kong. In 2003, the HK Urban Renewal Authority announced it would demolish and redevelop Lee Tung Street, relocating families who had lived in the area for many generations. In this context, residents, community workers and artists have developed a series of arts projects to record the stories and histories of the people on this street.
www.placestories.net
Placestories is a database and software system collecting and developing place-based digital stories in regional Queensland.
proboscis.org.uk
Artist-led studio Proboscis has created a number of projects that explore the relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit, such a 'Social Tapestries' and 'Story Cubes'.
