Speakers
Janine Saunders
Janine Saunders anine Saunders is a creative producer + media collaborator living in NYC. Janine currently produces at Workbook Project were she has helped developed and produce the online and offline strategies for Pandemic 1.0, Collapsus,The Factory and was producer for the web-series RADAR. She is currently producing Robot Heart Stories alongside Lance Weiler, which is launching this year at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema. Outside of WBP she’s leading the audience engagement strategy for Sing Your Song, a documentary about Harry Belafonte to air this fall on HBO. Before joining Workbook Project she worked closely with writer/ documentarian/ graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff and directed and edited Life Inc: The Movie, to support his book Life Inc. Also with Rushkoff she produced The Media Squat, a radio show on WFMU. She has worked with Frontline on the documentary and interactive website, Digital Nation, which explored the “digital native” and the implications of technology on personal and social development.
What Janine will be doing at DIY DAYS
Participatory and creative producing: how to engage your audience and team
Deciding to open your project up for collaboration around the world can be challenging on a psychological and logistical level. Janine Saunders will use Robot Heart Stories as a case study to show how participatory producing is not only possible, but can positively inform your storyworld and take your project in new directions that
were never intended. She will also discuss the value of giving your audience participatory touch points within the design of your project.
DIY DAYS asks Janine
What are you currently working on that you’re excited about?
Robot Heart Stories is the project that is most current and I truly care about. It’s a project that is empowering the minds and creativity of disenfranchised children via a cute robot that’s traveling across Canada and US.
What are some of your favorite sites and / or mobile apps and brief why?
Probably Ted talks – love learning from other people’s experiences.
What’s are you currently watching, reading or playing?
Currently reading Little Bets by Peter Sims which is absolutely a must read for creatives and innovators.
For more on Janine and his work visit
Links:
www.robotheartstories.com
Twitter:
@janinesaunders
About Us
DIY DAYS is a roving gathering for those who create. Past stops have included Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY DAYS is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain.
Currently DIY DAYS is held twice a year
Spring - NYC
Fall - LA
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