Job Digital Storytelling

[2024]

Job Digital Storytelling is a collaborative project with the IN360° community that examines the challenge of children aged 9-13 in rural Japan where their strong aspiration is still not well addressed considering the availability of figures they can look up to.

Through a 10-minute-long interactive video, taken in 360° format, we invite children into the daily life of a role model who moves back and forth between working as an assistant professor at a university and a videographer on freelance. The interactive viewing was formulated through a content creation process that applies empathy-based research, interview mapping, and story building. Making sure that the narrative is engaging for an audience as playful as children.

One message to deliver is the joy of pursuing personalized work styles and diverse jobs at the same time. This project was inspired by “Future of Work 2035: For Everyone to Shine”, a discussion held by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare in 2016 that anticipates societal and economic changes over the next 20 years.

This work was also pitched to an educational startup based in Kanazawa, LODU.