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Laura Lo Forti
I am a thoughtful listener and a story midwife.
I combine my background in journalism and media production skills with a deep passion for and understanding
As a media maker and participatory media practitioner,
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When children move from foster home to foster home, they lack what is known in social-service parlance as continuity of care. In an overburdened system, there is often no one to notice changes in a child’s behavior, or eating pattern or study habits. The CASA volunteer aims to be a consistent presence.
handouts, presentations, and reference materials related to MassArt documentary course.
This sounds great! I’m increasingly fascinated by the effect of participatory media, so this is just right up my street »>
HELLO WORLD!: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP LISTENING AND LOVE THE NOISE
Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of unique video diaries gathered from the internet. The project is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard. (via Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise | Christopher Baker)Snail Mail My Email is a worldwide collaborative art project where volunteers handwrite and artistically interpret strangers’ emails and send these physical letters to the intended recipients, completely free of charge.
MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and IDFA’s DocLab have joined together to put the long story of documentary innovation into perspective, and to speculate about its future.
Reflect is an innovative approach to adult learning and social change, which fuses the theories of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire with participatory methodologies.
The goals of empowerment are enhance when people, or create or give a voice to, a collective narratives that sustains their own personal life story in positive ways. The process is reciprocal, such as many individuals, create, change, and sustain the group narrative.
“You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats … the child of the state.” (Lemn Sissay)
“Awkward_NYC, or The New York City Map of Awkward Social interactions in Public Spaces, is a collaborative online map for reporting social accidents and small interpersonal traumas that occur unexpectedly in public spaces. The map pinpoints sites in the New York Metropolitan area where misunderstandings, outbursts, physical altercations, arguments between friends or strangers, and romantic spats or break-ups have occurred. These mishaps are characteristic of the human urban experience— they’re unsettling, often comic, strangely powerful mini-narratives and dramas that would otherwise go untold, but may linger in memory for months and years, as we move through the same urban landscapes, day in and day out.”
The Media, Activism and Participatory Politics Project.
Henry Jenkins (org.)
The Every Voice Engaged Foundation helps citizens, governments and non-profit organizations increase civic engagement and collaborate successfully on creating great quality of life.
an open source platform that seamlessly combines the virtues of personal reflection and public deliberation.
Every day Active Voice helps filmmakers, funders and communities work together to start the conversations and relationships that lead to lasting, measurable change. Since our inception in 2001, Active Voice has built a diverse portfolio of story-based campaigns focusing on issues including immigration, criminal justice, healthcare and education.
A project part of “dialogue and deliberation community” — a broadly-defined community of practice involving practitioners, scholars, activists, public officials, nonprofit leaders, process geeks, students, and others who engage and mobilize people across partisan, ethnic and other divides.
