The community of East Somerville, MA created an interactive map to tell the stories of their town. It shows everything from bus stops with shelters, to places where people feel unsafe. Audio clips and photos from community members are also shown.
Community Storybooks are powerful tools for community decision making, documenting in words and images what matters most to residents. They offer a snapshot of local character, values and sacred places, captured through a participatory process.
Community Storybooks are powerful tools for community decision making, documenting in words and images what matters most to residents. They offer a snapshot of local character, values and sacred places, captured through a participatory process.
This Emmy Award winning documentary series, run by the New York Times, shares the lives of everyday New Yorkers through pictures and audio, allowing locals to tell their unique stories in their own words.
Spurred by a tragic fire in which much of the Island’s recorded history burned to the ground, the Swan’s Island Memory Project aims to revive recollections of the small Maine Island through recorded histories and historical photographs.
This chapter in the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook describes why and how storytelling can provide a town with valuable insight into its own character and unique values.
This chapter in the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook explains how the Heart & Soul Community Planning process differs from other planning programs and how it can help engage residents and allow towns to identify and protect what matters most.
A collaboration between Brown University and the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence RI, this project uses storytelling, photo exhibits, and mapping exercises to understand and celebrate the community character of the historic neighborhood.
Urban Earth: (re)Presenting our Habitat is a film project aimed at displaying cities as they are. The films portray the realities of urban life by creating films from photos taken every 8 steps on walks through cities.
Rural Voices Radio celebrates rural areas with a combination of stories, poems, music, and local sounds and illustrates how place can provide powerful material for writing and learning.