FoST ESSENTIALS: ANIMATED
A series of beautifully animated explorations of narrative in the digital age. These FoST Essentials consider how we can filter through information and experiences in order to make meaning and gain wisdom. A wide range of perspectives on what it means to tell the story of being human.

Bjarke Pederson: Becoming The Story
LARP (Live Action Role Playing) allows you to step into a character’s shoes and engage all of your senses alongside other people to create intense and emotionally engaging stories.
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Beau Lotto — Understanding Perception: How We Experience the Meaning We Create
Our senses tell us stories about the world. Our perceptions evolved to interpret those stories—and understanding how will help us create meaning in our lives.
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Maria Popova — Wisdom in the Age of Information
Popova believes it's the storyteller's role to interpret information and shape it into wisdom for the rest of the culture to share.
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Jennifer Aaker — The Happiness Narrative
We assume happiness is stable, an endpoint to achieve. But Jennifer Aaker and her colleagues have discovered our ideas of happiness change over the course of our lives.
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Tiffany Shlain — Connecting Our Global Brain
Filmmaker and Webby Award Founder Tiffany Shlain compares the Internet to a child's developing brain. The Internet is in an early stage of development, and...
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Jake Shapiro — Voices in Our Heads
Smartphones have put a radio in every pocket, making audio storytelling more emotional, educational, and effective than ever before.
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Margaret Atwood — A State of Wonder
We've always told stories—it's part of our humanity—but how those stories are created and shared is changing all the time.
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