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Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG hat den Antrag auf Einrichtung eines Schwerpunktprogramms (SPP) "Mediatisierte Welten: Kommunikation im medialen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel" angenommen, den Friedrich Krotz (Uni Erfurt), Christiane Funken (TU Berlin), Andreas Hepp (Uni Bremen) und Michael Jäckel (Uni Trier) gestellt haben. Für dieses Schwerpunktprogramm können promovierte Wissenschaftlerinen und Wissenschaftler nun Anträge einreichen, die an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland arbeiten. Die offizielle Ausschreibung kann hier herunter geladen werden

Discussion and examples for  the usage of narrative film in urban design/planning. I am looking for examples/case of narrative film being used to present urban design/planning. Specifically I am interested in examples, if there are, where stories about some personas'/characters' lives in the proposed urban area are used to illustrate future activities/structures. There are, of course, numerous examples of animations, 3D renderings and "fly over" ariels that display buildings, sometimes showing people. What I am looking for are examples where the persons everyday is used to tell the story of future urban development rather than when people are just part of presenting a building or an area. It is likely that the story is centering the person(s) rather than the area. 

We are a multi-disciplinary lab exploring and producing pervasive media content, applications and services. We work within a brilliant community of artists, creative companies, technologists and academics.

With the establishment of the Center for Future Storytelling, the Media Lab, together with Plymouth Rock Studios, is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. Made possible by a seven-year, $25-million commitment by Plymouth Rock Studios, the Center takes a new and dynamic approach to how we tell our stories, creating new methods, technologies, and learning programs that recognize and respond to the changing communications landscape.

"We are our narratives" has become a popular slogan. "We" refers to our selves, in the full-blooded person-constituting sense. "Narratives" refers to the stories we tell about our selves and our exploits in settings as trivial as cocktail parties and as serious as intimate discussions with loved ones. We express some in speech. Others we tell silently to ourselves, in that constant little inner voice. The full collection of one's internal and external narratives generates the self we are intimately acquainted with. Our narrative selves continually unfold.