Winter 2020 Edition
Alumni & Friends Magazine
The soul within
Since 2007, this annual project in the School of Visual Communication—a combined experience of VICO 3921, Synthesis Storytelling for Visual Communication, and VICO 4188, Interactive Capstone: Advanced Interactive Media—has served as a way for students with different skillsets to experiment with various forms of storytelling and learn how to problem solve on the fly.
Cat Hofacker, BSJ '18 | June 26, 2020
Share:
When Carlin Stiehl, MA ’21 (ABOVE), signed up for the Soul of Athens class this spring semester, he knew he was in for a challenging 14 weeks.
“The running joke is that Soul of Athens requires you to sacrifice your soul for Athens,” the graduate student studying photojournalism says with a laugh.
Since 2007, this annual project in the School of Visual Communication—a combined experience of VICO 3921, Synthesis Storytelling for Visual Communication, and VICO 4188, Interactive Capstone: Advanced Interactive Media—has served as a way for students with different skillsets to experiment with various forms of storytelling and learn how to problem solve on the fly. Throughout the semester, undergraduate and graduate students mesh these skills with intensive collaboration to showcase a facet of life or culture in Southeast Ohio.
“The analogy I frequently use is ‘We’re going to go for a ride on the bus, the problem is we have to build the bus as we’re going,’” says Stan Alost, MS ’02, professor in the School of Visual Communication and one of the instructors for Soul of Athens.
Extendin