why do collaborative design processes matter for organizations and project teams?

Today’s innovations often result from interdisciplinary team members’ holistic approaches to complex challenges and problems. Having a well-defined collaborative design process that works for your team is essential for effective collaboration.

coLab researches and experiments with various collaborative design processes focusing on visualization and prototyping while working with the digital media project teams at Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, British Columbia. Visit coLab’s blog at whatiscolab.com

Deguiyu is an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with an element of treasure hunting on Xbox Live’s Indie Games platform. A player experiences alternate reality and is exposed to the issues of e-waste, information control, and corporate cultures while collecting information across various digital media such as Xbox console, website, mobile phone, and online video.

Guiyu, China is a town described as the biggest e-waste site in the world. By adding “de”, Deguiyu implies “let’s undo what we’ve done to the earth.”

As the Web Presence Director and Narrative Creator, I created the content of the Deguiyu website and the overall narrative flow of the ARG.

Deadbook is the product of innovative storytelling which incorporates interactive social network, video, and photography. Its narrative is set on the edge of the afterlife, as souls reconnect with each other to sort through their memories and to decide which ones they want to take with them into eternity under the supervision of the webmaster character “Charon”.

Experience Deadbook at deadbook.org after signing as a “recently departed” soul.

As the Narrative Creator and Director of Media Content, I designed a profile for one of the characters named “Lucy Cha” portraying her memories through video clips, photo images, and afterlife interactions with other characters.

As a multimedia project incorporating video, animation, photography, and 3D environment, Explore Saturna brings together heritage tourism and economic development for the community of Saturna Island, British Columbia. Discover the stories of early Spanish explorers and the most photographed place on the Gulf Islands; the once fully operational East Point Fog Alarm Building at Explore Saturna.

As the Filmmaker and Narrative Creator, I interviewed many passionate Saturna Islanders regarding their Spanish heritage, the Fog Alarm Building (FAB) and created the videos for Explore Saturna. Research on past and present stories on Saturna Island was crucial to my role.

You Don’t Look like a LESBIAN is an experimental film (10 min 30 sec) that explores what it means to “look like” a lesbian. Do you have to look a certain way to look like a lesbian or risk being mistaken for a straight girl? Does it matter?

Please email me at suyonsohn@gmail.com for a hard copy of You Don’t Look like a LESBIAN.

As the Multimedia Designer, I worked with many stakeholders at the University of British Columbia. I designed an animated version of the existing UBC logo which captures the spirit of UBC and enhances the brand image of the institution.

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