Design Storytelling

Thanks to Jarvis Cocker for introducing me, via the medium of #BBC6Music, to Adam Curtis’s amazing BBC blog The medium and the Message. Adam takes material from the BBC archives, including wonderful videos and images (see above), to tell news stories from a different perspective. A great example of his fascinating storytelling is this recent post about the idealistic, and one could say slightly sinister, operation in Afghanistan called The Human Terrain System.

“The idea is simple. Instead of concentrating only on fighting on the “physical terrain” - the cities, deserts and mountains of Afghanistan - the aim is get inside the minds of the Afghan people  - the “human terrain” - to find out how they see the world, how they think and feel. And then, with that knowledge, to exploit and control this “human terrain”  by engineering new ways of thinking inside the minds of the Afghan people.”