Narrative x
Interdisciplinary
Knowledge about narrative that is relevant and useful outside literature has sparked interdisciplinary research and narrative-based approaches to non-literary practices.
Specifically Interdisciplinary Organizations
Narrative x Mental Health
Narrative x Wellness
What if AI can write stories?
Angus Fletcher argues Why Computer AI Will Never Do What We Imagine It Can
AI Stories is a research project studying how narrative shapes AI outputs.
Narrative Group at USC Institute for Creative Technologies is pursuing research to advance technologies for automated storytelling and narrative understanding.
Narrative x Medicine
Narrative x Social Change
Narrative x Care
Narrative x Communication
Narrative x Neuroscience
Narrative x Design
Narrative x AI
Narrative Therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that centers personal stories, developed by Michael White and David Epston, authors of Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. Training and events are offered at The Dulwich Center, which has partnered withThe University of Melbourne to offer a graduate degree in Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
Narrative 4 is a nonprofit that uses storytelling to increase empathy and create social change.
What if literature was something that could improve your wellness?
Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher offers literature as a technology that can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui, while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change.
The Literary Reading and Mental Well-Being research coalition at International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL) studies effects of literature on wellbeing.
LIterature for Empowerment (LIFE) investigates whether reading fiction can foster a form of individual empowerment, or “eudaimonic empowerment”.
Narrative Medicine is an approach to medical practice that uses close reading of patient stories to improve medical outcomes.
Master and graduate degrees in narrative medicine are offered at Columbia University, University of Southern California and Harvard.
The Penn Listening Lab is a storytelling initiative that embraces the power of listening as a form of care.
Narrative Change is a media strategy used by social change organizations to shift public opinion on a social issue.
What if we put a patient’s story — instead of their illness — at the center of how we approach their care?
Narrative Gerontology approaches aging from the fundamental principle that life is a story.
An approach to professional communications practice that focuses on storytelling.
Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind (2007) criticizes the use of narrative in professional communications.
Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom by Maria Mäkelä and Hanna Meretoja criticizes the use of storytelling by storytelling consultants.
Narrative Cognition is an approach to understanding the human mind by studying how narrative affects the way people perceive the world.
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence by Angus Fletcher explains how and why our brains think in stories.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman’s podcast Inner Cosmos explores narrative’s effect on the brain in the episode Why do brains love stories?
What if consider things that we design as a narrative text?
Narrative Architecture considers space and structures as narrative texts.