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How platforms and visuals shape narrative: A conversation with Cayden Mak
Cayden Mak, executive director of 18 Million Rising , joined us last September at Start Making Sense: A working convening on Technologies...
Feb 19, 20207 min read
Narrative change in 2019
Deep narratives are built upon deep connections between people. Narrative is a thing (and narrative change is a practice). Deep narrative...
Dec 20, 20194 min read
Narrative Tech: Categories, needs and what’s next
Technology has always had a role in shaping how narratives are created, distributed, tracked and absorbed into society. Today, technology...
Dec 6, 20195 min read
Explanation and the “How” of a Narrative
We recently spoke with Julie Sweetland, Senior Advisor at FrameWorks Institute, about Unleashing the Power of How: An Explanation...
Nov 14, 20194 min read
Flooding the channels: Information abundance and narrative change
Five experts who joined Narrative Initiative and Open Society Foundations at Meeting the Populist Moment weigh in on narrative practice.
Oct 31, 201910 min read
Narrative research: Access, methods and pathways to a stronger field
Successful narrative change projects require practitioners to know what strategies work. When to use them. Who their audience is. That...
Oct 18, 20195 min read
The state of narrative change research methodology
We are excited to share recent findings of investigation into narrative research by partners at Spitfire Strategies. We sought to explore...
Sep 18, 20193 min read
Decoding Narrative Technology
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. – Melvin Kranzberg I was born in Washington DC in the early 1980s. I have seen...
Sep 17, 20195 min read
Narrative infrastructure to build a bigger we
Campaigners, funders, strategists and storytellers are all thinking about the systems and tools needed to measure, teach and test...
Sep 13, 20195 min read
A Pre-Forum Primer: “Building a Bigger We: Narrative Change in the Digital Age”
We live in a moment of great transformations in how we understand ourselves, society, democracy, reality, and the future. While some of...
Sep 5, 20195 min read
Three lessons for creating powerful collaborative gatherings
Narrative Initiative recently brought 100 people from around the world to Berlin for Meeting the Populist Moment . From idea to...
Sep 3, 20197 min read
Neoliberalism is dying. What narratives can replace it?
Neoliberalism has been the dominant political and economic paradigm for the last 40 years. It has redistributed wealth and power upward,...
Aug 22, 20195 min read
What We Learned in Minnesota
Read the Full Report: Building Narrative Infrastructure in Minnesota, August 2019 Narrative Initiative was founded in 2016 to build a...
Aug 2, 20194 min read
A Big Narrative Change Reading List
A dozen useful insights and reports from the intersection of narrative, movement power and culture change. Narrative change can be...
Jul 9, 20194 min read
Narrative Strategy in a Populist Moment
Last week, organizers, storytellers, artists and technologists from North America and Europe gathered in Berlin for three days at Meeting...
Jun 28, 20196 min read
Narrative Change: A Working Definition (and Some Related Terms)
Starting in 2016, Narrative Initiative began gathering up different ways people talk about narrative change, how it’s structured, and how...
May 16, 20193 min read
Toward New Gravity Today
Recapping, and reflecting on, what over 100 changemakers told us about narrative change. The human impulse–no, necessity– to make sense...
May 14, 20195 min read
Welcome the Narrative Initiative’s New Advisory Board Members
We’re excited to introduce you to the Narrative Initiative’s Advisory Board. Each of these people inspires us daily with their deep experien
May 8, 20191 min read
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