Draft:Story Sharing Cubes

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Story Sharing Cubes and written instructions for the participant.

The Story Sharing Cube (SSC) initiative aims to refine qualitative, in-situ data collection methodologies in high-uncertainty and complex environments. It also seeks to deepen scientific understanding of the impact of transformative festival cultures while simultaneously supporting community development efforts by sharing of anonymized data back to the communities.

The testing and development settings for the devices since 2019 have resembled week-long transformative festivals [1], such as Burning Man, where participants often undergo life-altering experiences. This was evidenced by a study published in Nature Communications in 2022[2].

Methodology[edit]

SSC is philosophically grounded to an assumption that people often attribute meaning to their experiences through stories [3].Methodologically, in situ narratives refer to stories collected directly in the environment where they naturally occur. The main difference between in situ methodology and thematic interview methodology lies in their data collection methods and context[4] . In in situ methodology, information is collected passively in its natural environment, capturing spontaneous expressions and interactions, whereas interview data is actively collected through direct questions and interaction between the interviewer and interviewee. In situ narratives provide a less filtered and more contextualized perspective because they are recorded in real-time in a natural environment, while interview data may be influenced by external factors due to the structure of interview questions[5].

Story Sharing Cubes technology.

The development of the research equipment has been a community-driven initiative and fully driven by volunteering efforts. Originally the cubes were funded by the Nordic participatory art community The Borderland in 2019 as an art project. The impetus for the "Share Your Transformational Story" question within the device stemmed from a study exploring the transformative experiences of participants[6] in a community art project Space on Fire. On the scholarly front, the method has been tested and developed by researcher-activist and extreme field work specialist[7] Dr. Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä together with Estonian anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Dr. Terje Toomistu, who has studied the Soviet hippie movement[8].

Academic outputs on the method (2019-)[edit]

  • Field research report on the 2019 Burning Man and Borderland events in article Transformation Through Connection? Insights From a Pilot Study of Story Sharing Cubes [1].
  • Conference publication on preliminary data analysis in conference paper Exploring psychedelic experiences: Insights from narrative collections in transformational festivals [9].
  • Master's thesis on the usability of Story Sharing Cubes Co-designing the Story Sharing Cube: a novel experience-driven data collection method for exploring transformative experiences in participatory culture communities[10].
  • Background of the methodology and its potential applications in artificial intelligence art was discussed in article From Myth to Cyberrealism? An Overview of the Joint Future of Artificial Intelligence and Art.[11]

Artistic and community development outputs from the data (2019-)[edit]

Stories collected with the method are shared back anonymously to communities and can be utilized by anyone in the arts, community development, or future project planning. The data has been used, for example, in the following ways:

  • Sound artist Mikko Heikinpoika´s piece "Love & Acceptance" based on the story from the 2019 Borderland event[12]
  • Founder member of the Burning Man community Marian Goodell's article introduced stories in the publication "Cultural Correction: Black Rock City[13], as well as in the New York Times article Burning Man, Seeking to Change ‘Convenience Culture,’ Boots Camp for Wealthy[14].
  • The Burning Man Live podcast analyzed the development of the method and its future applications outside of festival environments in the episode of Dr. Heikkilä and the Science of Participatory Culture [15].

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Toomistu, Terje; Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka (2020-11-16). "Transformation Through Connection? Insights From a Pilot Study of Story Sharing Cubes at Burning Man Events". Dancecult. 12 (1). doi:10.12801/1947-5403.2020.12.01.07.
  2. ^ Yudkin, Daniel A.; Prosser, Annayah M. B.; Heller, S. Megan; McRae, Kateri; Chakroff, Aleksandr; Crockett, M. J. (2022-05-27). "Prosocial correlates of transformative experiences at secular multi-day mass gatherings". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 2600. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.2600Y. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29600-1. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 9142525. PMID 35624086.
  3. ^ Vaara, Eero; Sonenshein, Scott; Boje, David (January 2016). "Narratives as Sources of Stability and Change in Organizations: Approaches and Directions for Future Research". Academy of Management Annals. 10 (1): 495–560. doi:10.5465/19416520.2016.1120963. ISSN 1941-6520.
  4. ^ Van De Mieroop, Dorien; Clifton, Jonathan; Schnurr, Stephanie (2022-01-31). "Narratives as social practice in organisational contexts". Narrative Inquiry. 32 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1075/ni.21090.van. ISSN 1387-6740.
  5. ^ Celuch, Krzysztof; Neuhofer, Barbara (2024-01-29). "Transformative event experiences: a visual in-situ study of change". Current Issues in Tourism: 1–22. doi:10.1080/13683500.2024.2309147. ISSN 1368-3500. S2CID 267416174.
  6. ^ Salmivaara, V.; Martela, F.; Heikkilä, J-P. (27 Nov 2020). "Radikaali psykologinen turvallisuus". Hallinnon Tutkimus (in Finnish). 39 (3): 188–204. doi:10.37450/ht.100037. ISSN 2343-4309. (abstract in English)
  7. ^ Heikkilä, J-P (5 Feb 2024). "Lessons Learned from Frontier Entrepreneurship Education in North Korea". Science & Diplomacy (In the Field). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). doi:10.1126/scidip.ado5059.
  8. ^ Harding, Luke (2019-10-23). "Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  9. ^ Heikkilä, J-P.; Toomistu, T. (2023). "Exploring psychedelic experiences: Insights from narrative collections in transformational festivals" (PDF). The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics 11/ 2023 Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland.
  10. ^ Ruijs, Hilda (2021). "Co-designing the Story Sharing Cube a novel experience driven data collection method for exploring transformative experiences in participatory culture communities". Aalto University Press. Master thesis.
  11. ^ Heikkilä, Jukka-Pekka (2021). "From Myth to Cyberrealism? An Overview of the Joint Future of Artificial Intelligence and Art". Futura (in English abstract and article in Finnish). 21 (1). ISSN 0785-5494.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  12. ^ Heikinpoika, Mikko. "Love & Acceptance". Spotify library. Retrieved 13 Feb 2024.
  13. ^ Goodell, Marian (9 Feb 2019). "Cultural Course Correcting: Black Rock City". Burning Man Journal. Retrieved 13 Feb 2024.
  14. ^ Holson, Laura (15 Feb 2019). "Burning Man, Seeking to Change 'Convenience Culture,' Boots Camp for Wealthy". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 Feb 2024.
  15. ^ Magnrum, Stuart (14 Oct 2021). "Dr Heikkilä and the Science of Participatory Culture". Burning Man Live. Retrieved 13 Feb 2024.
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