'Scape the hood

'Scape the Hood was conceived and desgined as a locative storytelling project for the Digital Storytelling Initiative here at KQED. We convened a group of storytellers, artists, and technologists to envision what this project could be. It became a narrative archeology experiement, combining digital storyelling and emerging technology by overlaying a virutal landscape on the physical world. As originally designed, the audience walks the streets and listens to the neighborhood stories, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells from both the physical and the virtual world. 'Scape the Hood peels back the layers of the neighborhood to reveal what's hidden below. The stories include those of Project Artaud; the environs of the native peoples as represented by Land and History; and the bustling Saturday experience that is the Mission Village Market. We invite you to 'Scape the Hood of Land and History...on the web.


'Scape the Hood: Land and History.

The Land and History section of the 'Scape the Hood project was originally conceieved and developed by by Paula Levine, Carolina Lucero Funes, Romero ALves.

If you would like to come "walk the walk," and experience of the overlay of story and narrative archeology on the urban environement, please drop us an email via the contact tab.

We are deeply grateful to Hewlett-Packard and the MobileBristol Platform Team for sponsoring and supporting this project.

For more information on narrative archeology, please see Jeremy Hight's website.


Many thanks to the Instructional Design Students at San Francisco State University who built this rapid prototype for us.
Lead coder, Mary Parke; Deep support, Ramon Lazo.
Other project specialists included Vanessa Wang and Jeremie Webb.