UNTOLD STORIES Process of creation
As previously shown in the ecosystem map, Untold stories arise thanks to a strong collaboration between universities, professional schools – with courses related to digital art design – and Untold. Thus, the process of creation of the story tales in augmented reality to be released in the app includes a few steps, involves different actors and takes around nine months. The process starts with an initial research phase. Untold is responsible for looking for mysteries, secret stories and legends related to certain locations of the city, both in the city centre and in the peripheral neighbourhoods. Plots and insights are mainly collected by browsing books, articles and online blogs related to the topics previously mentioned. Moreover, local associations, neighbourhood communities and cultural and art centres can be interviewed and consulted to 30
gather even more interesting and untold stories. Then Untold rearranges the plots and verifies the location where the stories should be placed. At the beginning of the academic semester, Untold briefs the students and the young digital artists: it gives them the plot to work on and some guidelines to follow to design the augmented reality contents. During the courses, Untold supervises the projects developed by the students and checks the compliance with the requirements. Once the semester is over, Untold selects the projects delivered by the students, it refines and tests them on location. Augmented reality stories are then developed and released on the app.
