Narrative Immersion · Melbourne
Narrative Immersion is a creative studio exploring what stories can do.
We work across health, education, screen, games and digital experiences, bringing together narrative, research, design and technology.
Explore our work01 / Proposition
They can place us inside an experience.
They can make complex ideas tangible. Let us see a situation from another point of view. Give us somewhere to rehearse decisions before we make them.
Narrative Immersion develops projects at the intersection of story, research, design and technology. We are interested in the places where story meets health, learning, research, technology and participation.
02 / Selected Work
Graphic medicine · Health
In developmentHeartsore is a narrative-based intervention for young people making the transition from paediatric to adult healthcare.
Rather than approaching transition as another set of instructions, the project uses fictional characters and story to explore the less visible experience of taking increasing responsibility for a lifelong health condition: identity, independence, relationships, uncertainty and self-management.
Graphic narrative · Adaptation · Research
PublishedA graphic novel adaptation of Fergus Hume’s nineteenth-century Melbourne mystery.
The project explores what happens when adaptation is treated not simply as the transfer of plot from one medium to another, but as the reconstruction of a fictional world through image, space and place.
Feature film · Screen · Production
ReleasedA feature film produced by Narrative Immersion in association with Mr.Grim Productions.
An exploration of screen storytelling bringing together writing, performance, visual narrative and independent production.
Interactive narrative · Education · Games
ReleasedThree narrative-driven educational games that place entrepreneurship inside a dystopian storyworld.
Designed for young people aged 10–15, Children of Dust explored how learning could happen through characters, decisions and consequence rather than being separated from the fictional experience.
03 / Areas of practice
How can story help people understand experiences that are difficult to communicate from the outside?
Graphic medicine, lived experience, health communication and narrative interventions that give emotional and experiential dimensions equal weight with information.
How might narrative change not simply what people learn, but how learning feels?
Educational games, digital learning and experiments in adaptive reading and shared narrative experiences.
What happens when an audience can act inside a story?
Games and digital experiences in which participation, choice and consequence become part of narrative itself.
Different media ask us to enter stories differently.
Film and comics exploring visual storytelling, adaptation, storyworld, perspective and place.
04 / Narrative Lab
Narrative Immersion develops digital experiences that explore new ways of entering, organising, creating and sharing narrative.
Some are available to experience now. Others are prototypes or evolving experiments.
Audio · Discovery · Digital experience
A subject-led way to explore podcasts and audiobooks through curated listening journeys.
Read morePlace · Community · Digital experience
An experiment in experiencing story through place.
Read moreMemory · Personal narrative · Digital experience
A space for collecting memories and shaping them into stories worth keeping.
Read moreChildren · Creativity · Storytelling
Helping children bring the stories inside their own creations to life.
Read more05 / Looking Forward
Narrative Immersion also develops ideas that ask how emerging technology and interactive forms might change our relationship with story.
06 / Research + Practice
Narrative Immersion grew out of a long-standing interest in the relationship between story and experience. Serious questions can produce more interesting creative answers.
How do stories create the feeling of being somewhere else?
What happens when knowledge becomes part of an unfolding experience?
How can story make an experience understandable without reducing its complexity?
07 / The studio
Narrative Immersion is an Australian creative studio founded in Melbourne in 2016. We work collaboratively across health, education, games, screen and emerging digital forms.
08 / Begin
A health experience.
A complex idea.
Something people need to learn.
A story that needs another form.