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We research and incubate collective creation within communities, across disciplines and with non-human systems like artificial intelligence.

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Crocheting Coral Reefs is a 20 year participatory project documenting the beauty of corals (mathematically!) in crochet 🧶. A video of a sculpture, from Marshmellow Laser Feast called Plankton Temple. It’s a light installation that comprises a series of suspended glass sculptures of varying sizes, each piece is hand-crafted to evoke the myriad forms of plankton, capturing their fragility, delicate beauty and diversity. Plankton are the unseen architects of life on Earth. Now on view at @mitmuseum ‘s new exhibit “Sensing Oceans” by @cocreationstudio

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In our latest column THE SYNTHESIS, out today : In this interview, the filmmakers behind *The End of Times* talk about using AI to reimagine our ways of thinking about family, memory, and history, and how they break the documentary contract with audiences. The film premiered at Venice Film Festival earlier this month. 🔗in bio by @cocreationstudio

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How do AI editing tools shape the stories we tell?

Join us tomorrow, September 29, for the REALITY CHECK: AI + Documentary Working Group keynote presentation:

STORY MACHINE: Documentary Film Editing and the Digital Process, presented by Nick Hector, ACE.
Story Machine: Documentary Film Editing and the Digital Process examines the artistic consequences of assistive AI on documentary editorial practice. Drawing on a practitioner-based comparative study in which the same raw materials were edited using contemporary digital methods and analogue-inspired strategies, the presentation considers how editorial tools shape narrative form. It argues that AI-assisted workflows tend to encourage non-linear, dialogue-driven structures, while analogue approaches foster more immersive narratives organized around time and place. Ultimately, Story Machine proposes that documentary filmmakers must resist digital tools that impose mechanical order on the emotional complexity and inherent unpredictability of human experience.

Presenter: Nick Hector, ACE, is an Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Windsor. He has worked in documentary production for over 40 years as a film editor and producer. Nick’s creative work has been exhibited by Sundance, Berlinale, TIFF, IDFA, Hot Docs, Visions du Réel, DOK Leipzig, Sheffield DocFest, and MoMA and is included in the Criterion Collection.

📅 Tuesday, September 29
🕛 12–1:30 pm ET
📍 RSVP Link in Bio for the AI + Doc Working Group to receive the Zoom link.

#Documentary #FilmEditing #AI #MITOpenDocLab by @cocreationstudio

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AI is changing how we tell stories. But who gets to shape the story of AI?

As documentaries about and made with AI continue to grow, shirin anlen, AI Research Technologist and Impact Manager at WITNESS, and Kat Cizek from MIT Open Documentary Lab (@opendoclab), identify recurring patterns that can reinforce industry narratives instead of challenging them.

From the “AI expert” archetype to the endless question of “what makes us human?”, these red flags invite us to think more critically about the stories we tell about AI, and the voices that are missing.

At WITNESS, we’ve been exploring the intersection of AI and documentary for years, from deepfake preparedness to consent and content provenance in synthetic media.

Learn more at the link in bio.

#AI #Documentary #ArtificialIntelligence #Documentary by @cocreationstudio

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Latest at The Synthesis column: 9 RED FLAGS OF TROUBLESOME AI DOCUMENTARIES 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩We have been remiss in not writing lately. Meanwhile, documentaries made with—or about—AI abound. Every major festival so far this year has featured at least one. As we approach our second anniversary of this column, The Synthesis, we write to catch you up on our recent learnings from this latest crop of AI documentary films, dearest gentle reader, to help save you time. We have watched many AI documentaries. Others we have tried to chase down but have only read about, admittedly, as they are hard to access due to distribution and legal issues, so there is that caveat. 🔗in bio by @cocreationstudio

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MIT Open Documentary Lab today announced that Lab Director Sarah Wolozin @sarah_wolozin is stepping down from her role, effective September 1, 2026. Wolozin’s departure marks the culmination of fifteen years of leadership that has shaped the global documentary media field.

Under Sarah’s tenure, Open Documentary Lab has flourished, reinforcing its position as an industry catalyst that unites, sustains, and grows a diverse creative field. Working with Lab founder and Principal Investigator, Professor William Uricchio, Wolozin served as the first director, designing its programming, resources, research, and convenings, forging partnerships supporting artists and scholars, and creating opportunities for students.

We are deeply grateful to Sarah for all she has built and stewarded. The Open Documentary Lab and Co-Creation Studio will continue key projects while restructuring in the fall of 2026 and will announce a new programmatic framework.

Read the full announcement in link in bio. taken in MIT by @cocreationstudio

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Reminder that all videos are LIVE and up on our website 🔗🔺🌱 Team presentations, incredible keynotes and a special talk from @weareagog 🌳

We’re so grateful to all the wonderful people who made WORLDING happen this year 👏

Archives on our website also include videos from 2025, 2023 and 2022 so make sure to check those out as well!

Warmly,
The WORLDING team by @cocreationstudio

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Lastly, we’re highlighting team Kuchema XR 🌍 Link in bio for all videos 🔗🔺More talks and keynote are also up👆

KUCHEMA XR is a community-led immersive project integrating Indigenous knowledge and agroecology practices to support climate adaptation, ecosystem restoration and intergenerational environmental stewardship in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The project integrates XR tools into programmes that promote agroecology, water conservation, soil restoration and disaster risk reduction, by bridging ancestral practices and digital tools to foster community-led environmental stewardship and scalable approaches to climate adaptation.

🌱Speakers:

Chipo Mapondera @chipomapondera_ 🥽 Creative Technologist
Thania Matamande 📑 Disaster Management Science Practitioner
Owen Chirikure 🖼️ Storyteller

#WORLDING2026 #KuchemaXR #IndigenousKnowledge #Agroecology #ClimateAdaptation EcosystemRestoration by @cocreationstudio

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🌩️ Our third spotlight is on Clouds Are Massing🔺 Link in bio to all videos 🔗🔗

Clouds Are Massing is a living laboratory for citizen participation, using a location-based immersive experience and data storytelling to engage the public in the planning of a future data centre in Montreal, through speculative design. As a space for collective reflection, the Clouds are Massing leverages immersive data storytelling to empower citizens’ deliberative processes.

💾Speakers:

Alexandra Marin @alex_____marin 🌱Director
Manuel Bolduc @manuel_bolduc_ 🥽 Creative Technologist
Sandrine Lambert @san_lambert 📝Anthropologist

#WORLDING2026 #CloudsAreMassing #CitizenParticipation #SpeculativeDesign #ClimateFutures by @cocreationstudio

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🌿 Check out all 2026 videos up on our website 👆Today’s spotlight is on Team Paru 🌫️

Paru is an interactive place-based documentary grounded in a decade of peatland field research that structures the transboundary haze crisis as a series of decisions and exchanges by exploring impossible economic choices facing smallholder farmers in West Kalimantan. It reimagines game mechanics within a live sensorial environment: projection mapping onto organic surfaces, spatial audio, farmer testimony, and field recordings.

🔺Speakers:

Alysha Nelson, @alyshanelson 🌱 Storyteller
Adi Gangga, 🌳Forester

#WORLDING2026 #Paru #Placemaking #ClimateFutures #CollectiveDecisionMaking by @cocreationstudio

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All WORLDING 2026 videos are up on our website 🔗🔺☺️ Today, we’re spotlighting team Ahupua’a Living Lab 🌊

Ahupua’a Living Lab is an interactive spatial storytelling and restoration platform rooted in Puʻuhonua ʻo Waimānalo, Oʻahu.

Drawing on LiDAR, drone imaging, and moʻolelo (stories), it makes visible the ancestral intelligence of Kānaka Maoli land systems – reconnecting people to ʻāina and modeling regenerative climate futures.

🏔️Speakers:

Tiare Ribeaux @tiareribeaux 🌱 Storyteller
Brandon Makaʻawaʻawa @hawaiiannational 🗺️ Placemaker
Daniel Kinzer @mrkinzer 🥽 Creative Technologist

#WORLDING2026 #AhupuaaLivingLab #KānakaMaoli #ClimateFutures #IndigenousStorytelling by @cocreationstudio

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📣 📹 WORLDING Videos are LIVE on our website!

From the incredible public keynote titled 🗺️ Imaginary Atlas with @gabriela_bila and @diogo.costapinto to 👥Community-Based Digital Twinning with Gesa Ziemer to the 💪 powerful presentations of all four teams right to a 🌱special talk from our partners @weareagog we’re thrilled to make portions of the incubator public 🔗

We will be posting the team presentations in the coming weeks but head over to our website to view the rest ⬆️

#worlding #worlding2026 #climatefutures #cocreation #mit by @cocreationstudio

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