To educate the pbulic so that we may respond to the next storm disaster better, and to spread the story of the survivors to better understand their difficulties and the emotional impact of the storm.
The user walks through the stories through their website in a timeline of each storm, where it follows each part of both storms. (i.e. Storm, Aftermath, Recovery, Future)
Simple form fillout with name and contact info along with your story.
The stories had video with both the storytellers and pictures from them. It also includes videos of the storm and it's effects upon the communities.
The user can share their story through the sit aswell if they wish to.
It creates a history and a better undestanding of the events that affected so many people on the East coast. It also compares the two storms to exhibit in both cases there were things we could have done better.
It was a movie/interactive site created by a large team of producers funded by these foundaitons:
They also have a fantastic list of these on their website:
Alliance for Global Justice is an organization that seeks to achieve social change and economic justice by helping to build a stronger more unified grassroots movement.
Arts and Democracy builds the momentum of a growing movement that links arts and culture, participatory democracy, and social justice.
Cowbird is a community of storytellers and the beautiful platform that we partnered with to collect and display stories in our first year.
Coney Island Generational Gap is a youth group in Coney Island that organizes work programs, arts opportunities and media courses for more than one hundred youth in the neighborhood.
El Centro is a storefront immigrant day worker center in Port Richmond, Staten Island.
Housing is a Human Right is a creative storytelling project that aims to help connect diverse communities around housing, land, and the dignity of a place to call home.
Interoccupy.Net fosters communication across the Occupy movement.
Land of Opportunity is an ongoing trans-media documentary that captures the struggle to rebuild New Orleans, one of America’s most beloved and emblematic cities. We partnered with Land of Opportunity on Katrina/Sandy.
New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years.
New York Writers Coalition provides free creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society.
Occupy Sandy is a mutual aid network responding to the ongoing crisis in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Parsons: New School for Design has been a pioneer in art and design higher education since its founding in 1896.
Project Hope offered free and confidential supportive counseling and public education services to Hurricane Sandy disaster survivors in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester Counties in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
Research Action Design (RAD) uses community-led research, transformative media organizing, technology development, and collaborative design to build the power of grassroots social movements.
The Beacon School is a public magnet high school on the Upper West Side that offers an inquiry-based college preparatory program with technology and arts infused throughout the curriculum.
The Hudson School is a private school in Hoboken, New Jersey, that provides intellectually inquisitive students in grades 5-12 with a rigorous and relevant college-preparatory education.
The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices–including the text and phone technology that Sandy Storyline uses.
YANA (You Are Never Alone) is a worker training center and hurricane relief hub in Rockaway Park.
People interested in the stories of Katarina and Sand and how the storms compared