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Item Amerah’s Garden: An Ecocentric Approach to Animated Storytelling Using Six Elements of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro as a Model(2020-11-16) Gilpatrick, Morgan; Simon, Julie; Rhee, Megan; University of Baltimore, Yale Gordon School of Arts and Sciences; Master of Fine Arts in Integrated DesignScience and environmental journalist Andrew Revkin frames the climate crisis as a grand challenge. International and federal reports on climate change released in 2018 from the US Global Change Research Program, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and The Lancet warn that time is running out for our Earth’s ecosystem if we fail to cap the rise of global temperatures to within 1.5°C of pre-industrial levels. If we fail to meet this grand challenge, our children and grandchildren will experience the impact of the climate and ecological crisis in ways that we can’t possibly imagine. Children’s stories are one of the building blocks of our adult belief system. A well-crafted animated ecocentric fairy tale can reframe a child’s relationship with nature from anthropocentric to ecocentric. The Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 feature-length animation My Neighbor Totoro is internationally recognized for its powerful ecological message. I use My Neighbor Totoro as a model for an ecocentric fairy tale and identify six elements that I believe make it such an effective ecocentric fairy tale. I identify these elements and use them to create my own ecological fairy tale, Amerah’s GardenItem Can Fanfiction be Considered as Good Storytelling?(2017) Head, Julianna; Bachelor's DegreeA speech on why fanfiction should be considered good storytelling.Item Industrial Storytelling: Preservation and Adaptive Use at Waterfront Redevelopments in the Puget Sound Region of the Pacific Northwest(2013) Felber, Lynette L.; MA in Historic PreservationPuget Sound waterfront redevelopments that visually communicate their histories of industrial use will best achieve sustainability, cultural meaning, and authentic placemaking for local residents. Preservation, design, and interpretation all contribute to this industrial storytelling. Hence, one major criterion for success is the extent to which a redevelopment has cultivated its extant resources. Historic buildings, structures, and artifacts should set the keynotes for site design and new construction. A second corollary, or criterion, evaluates how well developers, architects, and planners create a genuine sense of place, primarily through preservation and design, but also supplemented with interpretation. Finally, a third criterion focuses on ethical storytelling. A highly- effective project will mediate among competing values to convey its diverse history and promote narrative continuity, a layering of temporal evolution. Telling the stories of a site’s industrial precedents is an ethical mandate because it is essential to a community’s identity and need for continuance of a familiar landscape. These narratives should be conveyed through an organic process grounded in the site’s past. For example, at Granville Island in Vancouver, British Columbia, the first case study site, authentic placemaking was derived from the site’s historic layout, materials, and original resources. When these components are translated into a redevelopment, they produce the materialized narrative with the most historic integrity. The site should be recognizable to residents and interesting to tourists, but also communicate its history to new generations. This visibility is particularly necessary when original resources have been lost, as in the case of the Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma, the second case study. The industrial narrative is, therefore, best developed through sustainable preservation practices, design standards that evoke the original sense of place, and conscientious interpretation. The Waterfront District in Bellingham, the third case study, is an undeveloped site that could benefit from cultivating these elements. Ultimately, the communities that establish a well-conceived program for redevelopment to enhance their extant resources will articulate the most compelling, multilayered stories for their residents, and those of the future.Item Story Soup: Creating Contexts for Transformative Dialogue Across Borders(2017-06-09) Soble, Leslie; Eleuterio, Sue; Turner, Rory; Walker, Thomas; Cultural Sustainability; MA in Cultural Sustainability