My Stories
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An oral story I co-created with ChatGPT.
I had been trying to tell this story for ages, I first wrote a version on warm Bangalore afternoon, but was never quite satisfied with that version. Then came ChatGPT. Together we crafted a beautiful version of a story about a girl discovering her own inner strength, passion for justice, and perhaps, the meaning of life.
Finding Freedom - A Spark Narration Project
An interactive story with two centuries of from Surinamese history,
intermixed with sounds created from historical data.
This project was interrupted by a tough moment in my life, but the stories of these women were an amazing reprieve during otherwise dark days. Tirza, Iwan, and Tanya were also a great team to work with and learn from.
B-Boys
A fun little story and musical journey Rogier and I
created out of night of playing storytelling games.
I've always wanted to work music and stories together, and this little collaboration with DJ Brodger was a blast! We told the story of space ship taunting blackholes, enduring foolhardy captains, and rusting away in a shipyard, dreaming of it's next mission.
Together We Can & The Story of the Snakes
Using AI-generated art to transform stories from the stage into a zine for World Storytelling Day.
The amazing thing about these two pieces is how little time they took to create! With AI we were able to draw almost as fast as the story was able to emerge. The story itself was a product of emergent storytelling, so the whole thing sort of just appeared out of thin air!
Doldrums
A play, story, and musical experience about a man searching for meaning in loss.
Together with Pleun van Vliet and a musician, we took the MythLab story one step further. We spent several weekends crafting a new story and integrating improvisational bass stylings of Hienke Wever into a three part short play
Same Same, But Different - DISC Radio Season Two
A podcast exploring what happens when six storytellers start telling a story together from scratch.
Together with Pleun van Vliet and a musician, we took the MythLab story one step further. We spent several weekends crafting a new story and integrating the improvisational musical stylings.
Becoming Atoq
An interactive art gallery, story, and human rights message.
I was very lucky to be able to work with such an amazing photographer and human. Atoq's story, told through text, audio, video, and nearly 100 photos documents music, politics, and protest in Peru. His journey takes us up mountains and deep within ourselves. Rous's beautiful drawings follow us throughout the story, reminding that even in the darkest time, there will again be light.
What Story Changed Your Life? - DISC Radio Season One
Asking six amazing people one question.
Looking back, I can say some of these conversations changed my life! This simple question generated so many wonderful responses, and each is well worth a listen on their own. Together they paint a complex and interesting perspective on the challenges we face when searching for meaning.
Stories at the Sea, Masks-19, and Through the Screen
A lockdown poetry + photography project, a video poem, and a podcast documenting the pandemic.
We all need something to do during lockdown, so I did a few things. It started with a podcast and lots of conversations, but as summer drug on the connections dipped and I started writing poetry. Things finally open up and a video story emerged.
Gaca: A Voice for the Voiceless & Madi: A Voice for Change
Two profiles of human rights defenders for Justice & Peace
These two human rights defenders graciously shared their time and their stories with me. Even after several years, I still follow Madi's work in The Gambia closely. These men inspired me to take a closer look at the stories I was telling.
Solotvyno
A documentary for TU Delft about a community on the brink of a sinkhole in Ukraine.
These two human rights defenders graciously shared their time and their stories with me.
Even after several years, I still follow Madi's work in The Gambia closely. These men inspired me to take a closer look at the stories I was telling.
Axis Mundi
A poem and photo essay a few months before everything changed forever.
These two human rights defenders graciously shared their time and their stories with me.
Even after several years, I still follow Madi's work in The Gambia closely. These men inspired me to take a closer look at the stories I was telling.
Oasis
Oasis is the monitoring and evaluation app we have been developing for the WE Program. For this project I have been the team lead and system architect. We have recently launched Oasis internally and the public-facing webpage will come soon!
DISC MythLab 3.0
I brought together six storytellers to engage in a months-long spontaneous storytelling project. Together we created a world from thin air, and then told it to each other. This was a great experiment in unstructured storytelling and a huge success!
DISC Radio Season One - What Story Changed Your Life?
I asked six people that question and got six great answers.
WE Principles Defined!
At the end of 2020 we finished (finally) with our first definition of the WE Principles. Five simple rules that govern how the program works with human rights and humans.
The Garden
Paulina Vanderbilt and I teamed up to create The Garden, a hybrid digital & social workshop about storytelling and the Sustainable Development Goals. Recently we pitched this workshop to Nuffic, and are getting ready for the next school year.
Perspectives
My first interactive story inspired by the strange landscape of Zeeland. Also featuring my partner walking away from the camera, because she doesn't always like to be in pictures.
DISC MythLab 1.0 & 2.0
The online community of practice I started during lockdown ran for two season in the original format, centred around every asking questions about our craft to the group.
Solotvyno
Together Gijs Walstra and I created this documentary about the work of a EU-backed project in Ukraine for TU Delft.
Same Same, But Different
DISC Radio Season Two
With the help of Sahiti Sarva, I turned the MythLab 3.0 stories into a podcast series!
TU Delft Resilience Lab Stories & Web Design
I created several pieces for the Resilience Lab, my favourites are this story and this interactive. I also did lots of the website layout design and writing.
Gaca, A Voice to the Voiceless
Justice & Peace
This is Gaca's story, that I turned into words. Gaca is a journalist from Burundi who has been chased from his home by his own government.
BlinkLane Storytelling Workshop
Together with Terra we took DISC's storytelling workshop to BlinkLane Consulting in Amsterdam. A few weeks after our workshop we hosted a great night of stories in a pub in the Red Light District with the BlinkLane team.
Masks19
I got really bored during lockdown, so I created this photographic poetic essay about what was on my mind at the time. Some of the pieces were displayed at a local theatre with other COVID-inspred art.
WE Program Interactive Text Analysis
We took a set of interviews about the WE team, and began building a set of statistical & machine reading tools that gave us a new way of understanding what was being said.
Madi, A Voice for Change in The Gambia
Madi's was my first Justice & Peace story. It was great fun talking with Madi, I learned so much from him in such a short time.
Through the Screen
My first podcasting project was an overly ambitious one. For a month I wrote, recorded, and produced a show fives days a week for the TPM faculty at TU Delft. It was a great way to get a lot miles.
Curriculum Vitale
Made mistakes.
Learned from them.
Plan to continue doing both.
Click the picture to see the results of each project.
Portfolio