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Migratory Narratives: The Future World of the Refugee Camp

Migratory Narratives: The Future World of the Refugee Camp

“...Refugee camps are the cities of tomorrow ... The average stay today in a camp is 17 years. That’s a generation. In the Middle East, we were building camps (as) storage facilities for people. But the refugees were building a city…”

— Kilian Kleinschmidt

 

The World Building Institute is excited to announce the continuation of our long collaboration with the Berlinale Talents at the Berlin International Film Festival, where we curate the World Building Studio for the remarkable Talents attendees. These three days of participatory and interactive sessions, February 13 to 18 2016, focus on new design practice for narrative media.

The World Building Institute (WBI) is founded in the belief that storytelling is the most powerful system for the advancement of human capability, and that by combining the human imagination with new technologies we can sculpt this imagination into existence. The WBI is devoted to the landscape where art and science, technology, design and storytelling are inseparable. At their intersection lies the new creative laboratory for the future of our narrative practices. The Institute produces and curates a persistent trans-disciplinary discussion around immersive design, transmedia narrative, and worldbuilding.

This year, World Building Migratory Narratives: Envisioning the Future world of the Refugee Camp will focus on this prompt: that the refugee camp is the city of the future. To this end, we will examine a refugee camp in the year 2036, engaging collaborative, immersive, interdisciplinary world building processes, and using storytelling as a vehicle to try to comprehend this holistic and complex system. Throughout the panel and workshops we will ask these young talents to collaborate with a gathering of interdisciplinary WorldBuilding experts.

Our group of illustrious mentors includes Kilian Kleinschmidt, Puneet Ahira, Jessica Brillhart, Alex McDowell, Juan DiazB, alongside an extraordinary group of special guests that will join us in our immersive workshops, among whom are David Levin, Talia Radford, Greg Ipp, Karim Ben Khelifa, Sanjeet Ahira and Miriam Fassbender.

 

Key Mentors:

Puneet Ahira

Puneet Ahira
Systems Architect & Special Advisor to Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House.

Jessica Brillhart

Jessica Brillhart
Principal filmmaker for VR, Google

Juan DiazB

Juan DiazB
Worldbuilder / Director, Designer, Writer / Kosmology, Creative Director

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Kilian Kleinschmidt
Global Networker and Humanitarian Expert - Founder and Chairman Innovation and Planning Agency

Alex McDowell

Alex McDowell RDI
Creative Director, 5D Global Studio; Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts; Director, World Building Media Lab, World Building Institute

Special Workshop Guests:

Sanjeet Ahira

Sanjeet Ahira
Director of New Projects, Human Condition Labs

Susan Alzner

Susan Alzner
UN-NGLS Officer in Charge, New York

Gabo Arora

Gabo Arora
Senior Advisor, United Nations; Filmmaker

Karim Ben Khelifa

Karim Ben Khelifa
War Photographer / VR Director

Miriam Fassbender

Miriam Fassbender
Director, Cinematographer

Greg Ipp

Greg Ipp
Technical Director

Dave Levin

Dave Levin
Founder, Executive Director, Refugee Open Ware

Talia Radford

Talia Radford
Creative Director, taliaYstudio

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