Narrative-based human–artificial collaboration: A reflection on narratives as a framework for enhancinghuman–machine social relations

Serbanescu, Anca; Ciancia, Mariana; Piredda, Francesca; Bertolo, Maresa

doi:10.21606/pluriversal.2021.0038

Shifting AI Narrative. From Dystopian to Solarpunk Futures in Design Education (2025)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) narratives have long been dominated by dystopian visions, particularly in science fiction media. These representations constrain designers' capacity to envision alternative futures, reinforcing fear-based binaries of pro... Read More about Shifting AI Narrative. From Dystopian to Solarpunk Futures in Design Education.

Hextech heart vs Solarpunk soul. Viktor's path to transcendence. (2025)
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In this talk, I explore the transformative journey of Viktor, a central character in Arcane Season 2, through the lens of solarpunk and speculative design. Drawing from narrative analysis and symbolic worldbuilding, I examine how Viktor’s evolution f... Read More about Hextech heart vs Solarpunk soul. Viktor's path to transcendence..

Rooting Solarpunk: from visionary narratives to community empowerment (2025)
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This contribution explores the Solarpunk narrative (Flynn, 2014; Stephenson, 2011) and its hopeful vision of the future, emphasising its multifaceted nature as a genre, aesthetic, philosophy, and activist movement. Solarpunk is part of a broader spec... Read More about Rooting Solarpunk: from visionary narratives to community empowerment.

The IDN Design Model: A Proposal for an Extended SPP Model (2024)
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The proliferation of AI systems has brought increased attention to the process of creating Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs). There is still no formal IDN design model, as previous efforts were focused on understanding finished artefacts. This pa... Read More about The IDN Design Model: A Proposal for an Extended SPP Model.

Human-AI System Co-creativity to Build Interactive Digital Narratives (2023)
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The interactive digital narrative (IDN) is an interdisciplinary field connected to narrative studies, design, human-computer interaction, and gaming. In this contribution, IDN is investigated from the designer’s perspective; it deals with the use of... Read More about Human-AI System Co-creativity to Build Interactive Digital Narratives.

Human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds (2023)
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This paper explores the human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds (NWs) through active human-machine collaboration. It proposes a hypothesis of structuring a narrative world for the AI system, working on the gap between the main dis... Read More about Human-AI system co-creativity for building narrative worlds.

Building stories from behind a screen: managing the design of story-based strategies remotely (2021)
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In the contemporary mediascape, storytelling emerges as a strategic asset in several fields, resulting in what Fischer (1984) defined the ‘narrative paradigm’: the aptitude of people in communicating via storytelling and comprehending social interact... Read More about Building stories from behind a screen: managing the design of story-based strategies remotely.

Narrative-based human–artificial collaboration: A reflection on narratives as a framework for enhancinghuman–machine social relations (2021)
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This paper aims to reflect on human–artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration in cultural production and depicts the collective socio-cultural imaginary focusing on humans’ intrinsic vulnerabilities related to AI systems, which are often perceived a... Read More about Narrative-based human–artificial collaboration: A reflection on narratives as a framework for enhancinghuman–machine social relations.

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