The collaborative t
eam of multimedia and radio producers Isaac
Kestenbaum and Josie Holtzman will invoke a pause to create a memorial for "Winters Past," an immersive
multimedia storytelling project that tells the tale of a lost natural world
through personal experience, memory, and history of the seasons—specifically
the New England Winter. Using sound walks, podcasts and online data
visualization, the project will tell stories that cut through the media noise
and rhetoric to create a sensory experience that helps us understand what the
erosion of our natural environment truly means. The resulting soundscapes will
be shared via an interactive website and public radio programs, creating an intimate
multimedia remembrance of the world as it was, and one that is in danger of
disappearing. By humanizing climate change data, the project aims to prompt a
call to preserve what remains in our natural world while we have the chance.
Winters Past - What is an Ice Yacht?
An ice yacht is a sailboat on skates that travels 80 miles per hour.
They were once the fastest vehicles on the planet. Winters Past is a
project that collects stories of the way that winters used to be, and
brings these stories to life with audio soundwalks—meaning they should
be heard outside, while walking. Read the full article here.