Dalrymple Digital Visioning - Storytelling in Rural Communities
The Visioning Our Future Project has been built on the existing community strengths and networks in the remote rural towns of Dalrymple Shire. Stories and local histories are significant assets that Queensland rural communities can use to promote their towns and connect with other people and places. Local skills and capacities have been engaged and enhanced.
Participating communities have been provided with opportunities to share their stories and their aspirations for the future, enriching their sense of community identity, and connectedness with urban Australia. They have engaged in innovative ways with the challenges and opportunities facing their communities, learning new skills in digital media, connecting and sharing work online and building new networks.
A Pilot Project for other Rural Communities
As well delivering outcomes in the participating Dalrymple Shire townships, the project provided an opportunity to explore the potential of the PlaceStories digital storytelling software system in supporting the objectives of the Our Place Our Future Initiative, and the Blueprint for the Bush programs more broadly. As part of the Dalrymple Digital Visioning Project we have created a web site to host the work created and the growing network of users in the small townships of Dalrymple Shire.
This site is a dedicated sub-domain of our main PlaceStories website (www.placestories.com) and demonstrates how other Queensland rural towns could in the future use an expanded PlaceStories digital storytelling system to promote their community, share their stories and collaborate online. The emphasis in this initial stage of work has been encouraging storytelling with a wide range of community groups. In general terms we have organised these stories into broad categories, as outlined below, and reflected in the projects published online in the project website:
This site is a dedicated sub-domain of our main PlaceStories website (www.placestories.com) and demonstrates how other Queensland rural towns could in the future use an expanded PlaceStories digital storytelling system to promote their community, share their stories and collaborate online. The emphasis in this initial stage of work has been encouraging storytelling with a wide range of community groups. In general terms we have organised these stories into broad categories, as outlined below, and reflected in the projects published online in the project website:
- past and future - stories reflecting the history and aspirations of participating communities
- community services and organisations - profiles and examples of on the ground activity
- Individual stories - personal reflections on place and the future.
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