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David Benqué www.davidbenque.com Recent press We Make Money Not Art Creative Applications boingboing Cool Hunting Co. Design Illustration based on a Propp input sequence DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
This is the thinking that led to the project... I came across a paper by Joseph Gold, who argues storytelling and narrative are a biologically evolved functions of humans and actually have an evolutionary purpose in keeping us alive and evolving us as a species. Two books that helped me develop my ideas... 1) ‘The Uses of Enchantment’ by Bruno Bettelheim. It’s about fairy tales, and looks at their function — their significance for child development and the transition to adulthood. 2) ‘The Morphology of the Folktale’ by Vladimir Propp. This book raises the idea of story DNA, which could be interesting to look at in relation to computer science. Propp split the Russian fairy tale into 31 basic functions within which any tale of the specific subset that he was studying fitted. The example (below) of function 8a shows each function as an action or an event. Each one has up to 15 possible manifestations. Scientists have tried to use Propp’s inspired theories to create generators. “Story is to human beings what the pearl is to osyters, active adaptation.” Thursday, 30 June 2011 Joseph Gold DB DM and DK KB NM SP and CW
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