We decided to use the folding of paper to tell stories earlier on in our experiments. Rob and I started playing with origami and found this basic origami shape quite appealing for our purpose to develope a narrative system of non-linear story-telling. These mini-sculpture reflects the structure of the story, i.e: one has to lift up the modules in particular order to reveal alternative outcomes to the story. The story could be present in linear style, with several alternative endings or in a loop.
We also found in our experiment that stories can be invented by reordering the drawings, so it could be used as a toy to tell stories between kids. Here are some of the drawings I made for telling the Aesop story "The crow and the fox".
And Rob developed another story on "The lion and the mouse". We had a lot of fun drawing and building the mini-scrulpture. Printing became a big technical problem, as we need to figure out the rotation of the drawing to fulfill a nice image when the viewer's looking at it when it's folded up.
We expect this to be playful and we have spin-off several ideas to take this further into an animation production and a toy project. Thoughts are given to alternative material, such as laser-cutted plastics and embed connectors between the modules etc. Looking forward to see the critiques.
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