Stoke Stories: co-creating positive representations, with Pawas Bisht

Abstract

This presentation will focus on learnings from on-going teaching innovation project involving the development of a student-produced online audio-visual archive of the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

The project engages students from Keele's Media programme, specifically those enrolled on the ‘Documentary Theory & Practice’ module which involves production of short documentary films. The project requires students to develop their film projects in partnership with the local community and around a specifically defined theme.

The project addresses the theme of social learning in trying to create opportunities for meaningful dialogue between students and the local community as well as creating new online and offline platforms for student-led public engagement.

The presentation will include some of the film work produced as part of the project in 2017-18 around the theme of ‘Stoke: City of Culture’, learnings from the first iteration of the scheme, and enhancements planned for 2018-19.