Cultural Exploration & Digital Storytelling

Lancashire County Council and Preston City Council are working in collaboration with the Sandbox in using new cultural mapping strategies to explore cultural and social relationships in communities and for business alike.

The sandbox uses mobile phones and GPS technology to allow participation to document, record and write experiences in real-time and upload those files via video, SMS, sound and image directly from the mobile phone to a website to be shared with the all participants. Web-based projects provide a space for communities to utilised new social media tools to connect to others and be active author in promoting their values and local needs.
Sandbox facilitators employ new creative media tools, designed specifically to enable participants to gather and store relevant information, to bring people, their stories and digital technologies together in a creative and user-friendly way.