Lance Weiler :: story architect / experience designer of 21st century stories and social experiences | Lance Weiler :: story architect / experience designer of 21st century stories and social experiences

Pandemic

lw — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:11:03 +0000

[gallery columns="4"]A mysterious virus begins to affect the adults in a small rural town, and the youth soon find themselves cut off from civilization, fighting for their lives. How fast is the virus spreading? It is confirmed—the virus has hit Park City. Can you survive?

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Sundance Film Festival

CREDITS

Creator:
Lance Weiler
Writers:
Lance Weiler & Chuck Wendig
Producers:
Zeke Zelker, Janine Saunders, Anita Ondine
Experience Design
Lance Weiler
Data Viz
KineticFin & Jeff Clark
Creative Technologist:
Mark Harris
Mobile / Surface programming
VectorForm
Web Development
My Monteur, NetVentures & FreedomLab

Wish for the Future

lw — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:38:51 +0000

Last week at SXSW interactive I unveiled a new project I’ve created and designed entitled Wish for the Future in a special presentation in the Digital Domain section of the festival.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity?

Wish for the Future mixes participatory storytelling and design science to envision a better world. Participants make a wish for the future. Wishes are granted through a creative act such as writing a story, making a piece of art, sharing a song, or creating a video. Then granted wishes are prototyped using 3D printers and software hacks in an effort to create a tangible artifact. Afterward, wishes, creative expressions and prototypes will be placed in multiple time capsules and buried for 100 years.

Inspired by the Voyager Golden Records that were sent into space in 1977 and the work of Buckminster Fuller, Wish for the Future is an effort to ignite the imagination of many through experiential learning, creative expression and collaboration.

A Reboot Stories prototype created by Lance Weiler and produced by Janine Saunders, Wish for the Future is released under a creative commons license and is intended to be shared, remixed and expanded.

Pandemic 1.0

lw — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:22:39 +0000

A mysterious virus begins to affect the adults in a small rural town, and the youth soon find themselves cut off from civilization, fighting for their lives. How fast is the virus spreading? It is confirmed—the virus has hit Park City. Can you survive?

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Sundance Film Festival

CREDITS

Collapsus

lw — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:26:54 +0000

Collapsus looks into the near future and shows you how the imminent energy transition affects a group of ten young people, who appear to be caught up in an energy conspiracy. What will their world look like after the turbulent transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources?

AWARDS

SXSW interactive award
Emmy® Nomination

CREDITS

Director:
Tommy Pallotta
Writing:
Lance Weiler & Chuck Wendig
Production Company:
Submarine Channel

Bear 71

lw — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:24:27 +0000

Interactive documentary about a bear in the Canadian Rockies illuminates the way humans engage with wildlife in the age of networks, satellites, and digital surveillance.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Sundance Film Festival

CREDITS

Creators:
Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison
Writer:
JB Mackinnon
Producers:
NFB Interactive
Installation Co-Creator:
Lance Weiler
Installation Co.:
NFB and Lance Weiler
Web Designer / Developer:
Jam3

Godfrey’s Flower

lw — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:20:15 +0000

Over the last year or so I’ve started providing Story Architecture and Experience Design services to brands, agencies and studios. I’ve had the pleasure of working on some amazing projects. One such project launched this past week at the Sundance Film Festival. Together with the Coca Cola company, McCann-Erickson and Mirada Studios, I helped to create and design a rich collaborative storyworld entitled Godfrey’s Flower. The project is a dynamic storytelling project that embraces the Coca Cola company’s Content 2020 initiative. Here’s what Fast Company had to say about the collaboration.

A description of the project from the Godfrey site.

Godfrey’s Flower is a dynamic storytelling project, curated by The Coca-Cola Company, McCann-Erickson, and Mirada Studios. Premiering at Sundance within the New Frontier program, Godfrey’s Flower will push the boundaries of classic narrative tradition and explore the outer edges on how stories could be well told, in an era where technology is evolving the way we all connect to each other.