The Listening City: Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Place-making

The Listening City is a collaborative interdisciplinary project that aims to explore Digital Storytelling as a tool for place-making and as a community-building approach to inspire dialogue and mutual understanding across diverse groups within an urban context. As stories convey values and emotions, they are very effective in revealing the differences and similarities between people’s experiences (East, Leah et al. 2010). When those experiences are linked to a particular context, stories become a magnifier of people’s sense of place.
Within this project Bredäng, a public housing neighbourhood South of Stockholm, and Mälarhöjden, the garden neighbourhood, were selected as case study areas, considering their very different socio-economic status, despite being divided only by a tunnel.