Narrative x
Interdisciplinary narrative study and practice
Narrative x AI
Can AI can write stories?
Why Computer AI Will Never Do What We Imagine It Can by Angus Fletcher.
AI STORIES is a five year project explorING how narrative archetypes shape AI outputs.
Narrative Group at USC Institute for Creative Technologies is pursuing research to advance technologies for automated storytelling and narrative understanding.
Narrative x Care
Can narrative improve care?
Narrative Gerontology approaches aging from the fundamental principle that life is a story.
Narrative x Communication
Organizational communications practice that includes 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 x Design
Can design products be narrative texts?
Narrative Architecture considers space and structures as narrative texts.
Narrative x Medicine
Can narrative improve medical outcomes?
Narrative Medicine master and graduate degrees 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 Mindworks is a community advancing the art and practice of narrative in healthcare, education, and communication.
Narrative x Mental Health
Can narrative improve mental health?
Narrative Therapy was 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 x Neuroscience
Is narrative fundamental to how we think?
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?
Narrative x Social Change
Can narrative create social change?
Narrative Change is a media strategy used by social change organizations to shift public opinion on a social issue. Learn more.
Narrative 4 uses storytelling to increase empathy for social change.
Narrative x Wellness
Can narrative improve 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”.