The Media Conte workshop in Hiroshima Saijo was conducted with a theme “my digital story created with community people.” It was held at a community apartment “C-CORE Higashi Hiroshima” where provide day-care facilities for the elderly, the disabled, and children with a concept of “welfare sustained by local community.” “Storytellers” were persons aged from 20s to 70s: an apartment resident, a builder of the apartment who work for the town development, a graduate student who teach kids in the community, a member of the neighborhood community association. They partnered up with students of Hiroshima University of Economics, who participated as facilitators.
The storytellers talked to students about what they do, what they did, who they have met, and what they want to do. Through the dialogues, they found out their own stories. The partners provided and shared ideas which photos and words they should choose to express storytellers’ thoughts, and generated digital stories.