02-Feb-2023
Click here to read the Editorial of Doing Things with Stories Once upon a time, a team of researchers started talking to a large range of changemakers to identify what they predict would be the biggest problems of the future. They were surprised to hear, again and again, that the biggest challenge that many communities […]
02-Feb-2023
Click here to read the Introduction to Doing Things with Stories In his extraordinary re-telling of an old Indian myth in his play Nagamandala, Girish Karnad introduces the setting of an old village temple, where after the hour of sleep, as lamps have been extinguished, the flames come together to gossip about what has happened […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Diana Ocholla To be vulnerable is to be brave. Like Brené Brown says in her book Daring Greatly, ‘Courage starts by showing up and letting ourselves be seen.’ In this piece, Can Bora invites you to contemplate your existence, love and everything in between as you’re taken on a journey of deep feeling, […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Elena ‘L’ Mejía J. ‘Whether we realise it or not, stories make the core of our being. We are all made up of stories.’ And for Cynthia, especially in the case of movies, we can also see the possibilities of who we can be. Cynthia is immensely inspired by this projection of the […]
02-Feb-2023
Rini Jospeh, in her own words, as interpreted by Alex Juhasz Rini Joseph is an artist first, self-taught, and young. She is a teacher with different artistic mediums with kids. Her work right now is centered on identity: class, caste, and ancestry. Thinking about this, […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Sabah Khan Doel Jaikishen’s submission introduces us to curated walks as a means of narrative change in Mumbai, India. In collaboration with the non-governmental organisation YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action), Doel is a member of the team which conceptualized curated walks (through a slum and a resettlement colony) to shift how […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction for Zola and Deb by: Neha Singh Deb lives in Kaduna, Nigeria. Zola lives in Jozi, South Africa. I live in Mumbai, India. The similarity of our story transcends the differences in our names, our identities, our cities. This is the story that was supposed to define us, our lives, our destinies. The similarity […]
02-Feb-2023
James Wegh, in his own words, as interpreted by Alex Juhasz Storytelling came naturally to me. My grandfather was a storyteller. On holidays we went to the village. People were glued to their seats listening to him and would stay for days or even months. My father and uncle were soldiers. […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction for Bethany Copsey and Sofia Batalha by: Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul The future tends to be daunting, especially when we think of it through the lens of all that is currently broken. Through the following narratives, Bethany and Sofia manage to do two complicated things: pluck the reader from our present moment and the rules […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Bhavani Esapathi Anita and Shabbir, writers, humans and mostly imaginateurs of all things that should be real. Reality has evaded many of us in the current social-political climate, but what never ceases to amaze is our abilities to conjure new realities that supersede and invoke new worlds. Do we live in the real or […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Terry Jerry A’Wase Micheal Chijoke Ukwuma is a medical practitioner turned creative writer. Born in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, a place famous for dreams being molded into whatever parents predispose as a successful future, Chijoke’s love for creative writing and acting could not see the light of day as it was a ‘waste of […]
02-Feb-2023
Though it affects everyone, the subject of mental health does not receive adequate attention in the day-to-day lives of our contemporary communities. Most affected are caregivers, who are the drivers of support systems. They constantly handle and help in alleviating high levels of trauma, pain and suffering among people. In the process, they also experience […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction for Bethany Copsey and Sofia Batalha by: Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul The future tends to be daunting, especially when we think of it through the lens of all that is currently broken. Through the following narratives, Bethany and Sofia manage to do two complicated things: pluck the reader from our present moment and the rules […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction for Zola and Deb Deb lives in Kaduna, Nigeria. Zola lives in Jozi, South Africa. I live in Mumbai, India. The similarity of our story transcends the differences in our names, our identities, our cities. This is the story that was supposed to define us, our lives, our destinies. The similarity of the stories […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Devin Hentz Neha’s text traces how the factors in her life lead to making art. Reflecting on the role that stories, or the lack thereof, have had in shaping her personal life, Neha considers the role of stories in society. Transforming the personal into material abstractions that can be perceived and experienced with […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Bhavani Esapathi Astrid Feringa and Lindsay Stegenga’s work stems from addressing the implicit bias in institutional care. By studying Feringa’s own clinical logbook during a stay at a mental health facility, they unpack a variety of themes that often go unnoticed while providing clinical care. Can institutions learn to treat humans humanely? What […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Sabah Khan Lekhetho David Sefate is a freelance writer, who finds the medium of storytelling inspirational and fascinating. ‘A Day in the Sun’ underlines the everyday struggle of youth of the Republic of South Africa (RSA) as they negotiate racism and the country’s systemic failure to deal with inequality and poverty. Drafted as […]
02-Feb-2023
Arjun Bali was born in Jodhpur Rajasthan, India. He was raised in the theatre of injustice that needed constant advocacy against oppression. He chose the power of narrative storytelling as his revolutionary option and went on to study English literature, and then visual and development communication in India. He also experienced Japanese culture as an […]
02-Feb-2023
Introduction by: Diana Ocholla A challenge, an invitation, perhaps, to question and disrupt. In this piece, Amit Palgi pokes at how we think and why we think what we think. It can be so easy to fall into the mundane, the routine, but what happens if we get too comfortable and stop questioning? If we […]
