Our Collective Wisdom series highlights and builds on the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms field study.
Launched in June 2019, Collective Wisdom aims to advance our understanding of creative efforts outside the limits of singular authorship. This Immerse series is edited by Jessica Clark and Katerina Cizek in collaboration with Samuel Mendez and Carrie McLaren.
Introducing Our Series on Collective Wisdom: FAQ Immerse series in collaboration with Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
In Conversation: Co-Creation and Equity, Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out Here, we present a conversation between Juanita Anderson, Maria Agui Carter, Thomas Allen Harris, Maori Karmael Holmes…
Why Journalists Should Care About Collective Wisdom “Audiences are asking new, more complex questions about power imbalances implicit in legacy-storytelling contracts…
Can Humans Co-Create with Algorithms? One of the most provocative chapters of the Collective Wisdom report is titled “Media Co-creation with Non-human…
Community, Art, and AI: An Interview with Stephanie Dinkins Here we present an in-depth look into Stephanie Dinkins’s practice with AI, robots, art, and community.
Interactive Graphic: Co-Creation and Associated Practices This graphic, excerpted from the Collective Wisdom report, shows co-creation within a network of related practices…
“We, The People” “Casting the Vote” Serves Up Traditional American Food and Raises Hard Questions About Our Participation in Democracy
What Might a Canon for Co-Creation Look Like? An interview with Hank Willis Thomas
Mapping Media Making Projects: a Few Good Examples Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out, Part II
Principles of Collective Wisdom As part of our series for the Collective Wisdom field study , we present these principles for co-creation
Co-creating Fireflies: A Brownsville Story An interview with Nicholas Pilarski and Sarah Bassett
Photo Essay: Behind the Scenes at Detroit Narrative Agency The following photo essay is an abridged excerpt from the Collective Wisdom field study with a key partner, Detroit…
Multi-Vocality, Co-Creation, and the Circularity of Storytelling An interview with artist Salome Asega
Co-Creation and Incubation: Fostering Emerging Art An interview with Stephanie Pereira of NEW INC
How Can This Work Be Better Honored and Supported? Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out, Part III
Collective Wisdom at the First Ever Climate Story Lab immerse.news
Speculations and Questions at Visible Evidence Field Notes from a Workshop on Co-Creation in Documentary
Co-Creation Requires New Roles for Directors and Producers What do the new models of leadership look like with a mindful, intentional approach to creating new spaces for…
Retrospective: Wheelchair Travel and Co-Creation My background
How One Podcasting Duo is Re-Making Documentary An interview with the co-creators of Ear Hustle, Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
Co-Creation Key to Virtual Reality Art Report-out from the Venice Film Festival
A New Tech Code for Seven Generations Meet Co-Creation Studio’s new Mozilla Fellow
Design Gets a Reboot Paolo Cardini discusses how designing for a more equitable future requires a new process
Unpacking the Complex Roles of Media Makers of Color Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out, Part IV
Co-Creating a Map of Queer Experience An Interview with Lucas LaRochelle
Antecedent Technology Don’t colonize our future
Graphic: Spectrum of Co-Creation This diagram suggests how co-creation sits in the range of a joint discovery process in which all partner are co-pilots
Better Living Through Microbes Artist WhiteFeather Hunter creates beautiful things by growing bacteria, chatting with bugs, and collecting menstrual…
Building Irreverent and Intersectional Futures Design Justice and co-creation in the ‘Make the Breast Pump Not Suck’ Hackathon
StoryShift: Advocating Community Responsibility in Documentary A new program from Working Films shares the approaches of filmmakers who use co-creative practices.
Fostering Community Power Amid Systemic Challenges Five Media-Makers of Color Speak Out, Part V
How Do Media Practitioners Co-Create Well? Risks and lessons from the Collective Wisdom field study
Collective Amnesia 5 lessons from “new media” during the 1918 waves of Influenza and racial terror
Inverse Surveillance Project Meet the new Co-Creation Journalism Fellow, filmmaker Assia Boundaoui
Collective Wisdom is an Immerse series created in collaboration with Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab. Immerse’s series features excerpts from MIT Open Documentary Lab’s larger field study — Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms — as well as bonus interviews and exclusive content.
The field study was authored by Katerina Cizek and William Uricchio, with co-authors Juanita Anderson, Maria Aqui Carter, Detroit Narrative Agency, Thomas Allen Harris, Maori Holmes, Richard Lachmann, Louis Massiah, Cara Mertes, Sara Rafsky, Michèle Stephenson, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Sarah Wolozin. The study was funded by Just Films of Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with contributions from Ryerson University and MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
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