Transmedia storytelling: ArtScience collaboration for studies and
representation of social-ecological-technological systems
Abstract
Addressing the need for convergence of different sources of knowledge to
deal with complex issues such as global change, this paper presents the
results of collaboration between artists and scientists to study
social-ecological-technological systems (SETS). We focus on informal
roads as an example of SETS. In the absence of public roads local,
mostly indigenous communities and others use these forestry roads,
seismic line clearings and oil and gas service roads for mobility in
Siberian taiga affected by extractive industry. In 2020, with COVID-19,
we had to increase our emphasis on virtual forms of data gathering,
interpretation, and representations of the results. Presented in this
paper forms of transmedia storytelling are designed to allow audience
and users as well as the local and indigenous communities to get
familiar with the research results, give feedback, and provide their own
perspectives, interrelations and interdependencies between different
SETS components.