explanation architecture
 
project: Narrative Navigation
architects: Heidi N. Gitelman & Brian K. Smith
additional architects: Shinichi Sakamoto, Fred Choi, Nate Janos
 
         
  Narrative Navigation and Multilinear Narrative 
Title: Intersections at Third and Indiana 

Working closely with WHYY-TV (PBS, Philadelphia) and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, we are creating a multilinear, interactive documentary television prototype for "enhanced TV."

 
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Filmed in Philadelphia, combining documentary and dramatic narrative styles, Third and Indiana looks through the eyes of Philadelphia residents, as it considers both the larger and individual issues surrounding what each of us calls "home."
 
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  While very much a fluid narrative, Third and Indiana's knowledge representation, story structure, and navigation are based upon a viewer's interaction with the story and are dynamically created by viewers' personal reactions to, and understandings of the Philadelphia stories, within the context of their own experiences. Door
 
  A scripting/storyboarding tool is also being developed in part, from this work.  Girl in window Cement barrier
 
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Stay tuned for further details.