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41 million Europeans feel permanently lonely, according to a 2018 EU study. With HiStory, an international team is working on a solution that focusses on personal stories to make new connections and avoid loneliness from scratch.

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Background

In Europe (and elsewhere) social isolation is a societal problem that affects older people disproportionately. The HiStory project uses storytelling around a digital app to connect people with their social environment and to preserve knowledge and hence cultural heritage.

 

Studio Dankl’s approach

Based on successful formats such as the Wien Museum’s storytelling circles and interviews with participants, moderators, and curators, knowledge about the important dynamics of storytelling was generated. Format and service on an analogue and digital level were developed in iterative co-creation workshops.

„HiStory enables people to connect through storytelling. In the process, it was always amazing to observe how much stories about personal experiences and moments touch people and how openly, respectfully and benevolently complete strangers interact with each other.“

Stephanie Schwarz (Scientist, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)

The website https://hi-story.eu provides information on the content and timeline of the international HiStory project.

Result

HiStory is a digital and analogue service including a set of cards that is currently being tested in the second field trial in Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

„In a series of co-creation workshops, the storytelling process for the storytelling rounds, including all materials, was tested step by step to ensure that the requirements and needs of potential storytellers and facilitators alike were taken into account.“

Stephanie Schwarz (Scientist, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)

Services: Design research, service design innovation, user tests and field research, dissemination. This project is funded by Active and Assisted Living (AAL). National funding through the FFG program. Consortium: NOUS Digital (AT), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts | iHomeLab (CH), AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AT), Studio Dankl (AT), National Foundation for the Elderly (NL), Vicino (CH), IJsfontein (NL) und Municipality of Zutphen (NL)

Together with future storytellers and listeners, an app and a storytelling format are created that connect people and counteract social isolation.

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