Lessons For a Storytelling Commons

Summary

Drawing on six months of peer learning between UK organisations, the People’s Newsroom argue that “Generative and life-giving stories will only come from generative and life-giving practices”. So they propose a ‘story commons’, cared for by communities rather than corporations, moving from storytelling as “products to be broadcast/consumed” to story-sharing, “a process, that invites us into co-creation”.

Rationale

We’ve asked whether told stories gain force when tied to something built. A story commons builds that tie: infrastructure for telling, held by the people whose stories they are.