What we worked on

Introduction and check-in.

Cris, group mentor and principal at metaLAB, presented progress on their interactive documentary Cold Storage, about the Harvard Depository.

Group members critiqued the work and added to the body of knowledge of interactive doc by defining term and key issues. We started a mindmap that all stakeholders can edit. Here is a capture of it:

What went well

The critique of the Cold Storage interactive doc, creating the mindmap and defining terms/issues, and generating questions about what problem DocShop will solve.

What was challenging

Continuing the scope analysis of this project– will our deliverable be process based, a scholarly work, a white paper, a program, a design for a workshop or seminar, a pedagogical tool (such as the Beautiful Data toolkit), or a protype of a webdocumentary or platform?

What’s up next

Valery will present her project. Each group member will bring one proposal for our project this semester (and beyond) for DPSI. We will read Kate Nash’s Modes of Interactivity, Alexandre Astruc’s La Camera Stylo, and define Bill Nichol’s modes of observational documentary. We will discuss Valery’s work and Journey to the End of Coal in light of the readings and terms, iterating and refining the mindmap.