Lightning talk about “Fireflies: A Brownsville Story”, featuring Sarah Bassett, Jasmine bowie, Nick Pilarski, Ray Graham, and Adrian Richardson.
“Fireflies: A Brownsville Story” is a VR game made by Brownsville youth to address tensions in their community and portray the residents in a more nuanced light. Their goal is to make an experience through which people can understand their community more and connect to it.
This panel discussion was part of the Collective Wisdom Symposium, a three-day multi-disciplinary symposium organized by the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s Just Films, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Phi Centre. September 20-22, 2018.