Stories of community member’s daily interactions with impacts related to sea level rise and intensifying storms complete a more personal and human picture. Stories and imagery have the potential to create greater awareness about statewide impacts and resiliency concerns. In this project, we seek to raise public awareness of sea level rise, intensifying storms, and associated resiliency concerns through digital storytelling. We also wish to provide a platform and process for concerned citizens to publicly share geo-tagged photographic evidence of SLR impacts within their communities.
Goals of this project include:
- raise awareness of statewide problems with sea-level rise and intensifying storms through the art of digital storytelling.
- create a platform and process for concerned citizens to provide geo-tagged photographic evidence of sea-level rise and intensifying storm impacts within their communities — a citizen science approach.
“We know the stories are out there, and we are proposing the development of an framework to collect, document, and disseminate this information to raise awareness of sea-level impacts throughout the state.”
Both the digital storytelling and the image catalog (citizen science) projects provide excellent opportunities to realize the goals of the Coastal Resiliency Design Studio — an initiative to engage planners, community members, experts, and students in bridging science and design to solve coastal resiliency issues.
Researchers for this project include:
Lead PIs
- Jules Bruck, Professor & Director, Landscape Architecture
- Anna Wik, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Co-PIs
- Jon Cox, National Geographic Explorer, Assistant Professor of Art and Design
- Ed Lewandowski, Coordinator Sustainable Coastal Communities Initiative, Delaware Sea Grant
- Jenn Volk, Associate Director of Cooperative Extension
- Gregory Shelnutt, Chair and Professor of Art
- Catherine Morrissy, Director, Center for Historic Architecture and Design
- Tina Callahan, Associate Director, Delaware Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Center (DEMAC)
