After completing this unit, the learner will be able to:

• Develop a theoretical, analytical and methodological appreciation of media/digital formats and modalities for storytelling across platforms and in blended spaces
• Employ a practice-oriented, hands-on, conceptualizing approach towards digital worlds, media ecologies and storytelling as designs, aesthetic expressions, interaction forms, user experiences and cultural creative produc
• Explore how multimodal narratives are designed historically, narratively, technically, and cognitively.
• Employ design thinking tools to analyse a multimodal narrative
• Explore how the seamless integration of digital technology into physical reality (phygital) facilitates the communication of heritage information.
• Deploy a mixed-methods evaluation methodology for assessing interactive prototypes, focusing on the communication of heritage information and user engagement.
• Develop a theoretical and analytical appreciation of the affordances and narrative strategies employed in locative audio storytelling, drawing on concepts in sound studies, narratology and mobile media studies.
• Take a practice-oriented and hands-on approach to analyze, evaluate and explain such strategies in concrete case examples, as well as outline alternative approaches.