DIY Situated Digital Narratives : Co-Creating Location-based Storytelling Urban Games as Advocacy

This method, situated within the paradigm of ‘radical’ placemaking (Gonsalves et al. 2020), explores the co-creation of location-based urban games to document emotionally-charged narratives of those who experience intersections of marginalizations. One prototype was developed in August-September 2019and it was utilized in the Chatty Bench Project in July-October 2020 where 16 storytellers of Kelvin Grove Urban Village created digitally situated narratives of place (Gonsalves, Foth, and Caldwell 2021). The narratives are built using open source digital tools such as Twine and social media platforms. The method explored the impact of building these narratives as a tool of advocacy.