Interactive and Immersive Documentary Methods for Community Resilience & Disaster Reduction

Abstract

Drawing on field research conducted by Professor Brian McAdoo, an environmental scientist at Yale-NUS College and Tom White, a freelance visual journalist who also teaches part-time at Yale-NUS this paper will explore how methods can be developed for emerging interactive documentary forms might contribute to the ways in which communities increase resilience and reduce losses when meeting the challenge of natural disasters and human-made environmental risks including anthropogenic climate change.