8 projects have been fine-tuned during the three-day Development Lab.

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TELLIO – Simple story sharing
ANNALISA CASATI, Italy – annalisa.casati@gmail.com
Tellio is a device that helps grandchildren and grandparents to keep in contact through a simple radio  recording device. The project could be a viral trailer of the interaction itself, working through story tagging, and trying to sensitize younger generations to listen to those stories and asking for it!

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Landscape Stories
TOASTLab – L. CHIRIELEISON, R. STEINER, R. BRUSCHI, Switzerland – info@toastlab.ch, www.toastlab.ch
The digital divide among generations makes it difficult to share knowledge and experiences.
Landscape Stories is a transmedia format that tries to overcome this division in order to enable future generations to develop a strong emotional attachment to their own heritage and environment.

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DRIFT. Lost is not a problem
GIULIA BERTUZZO, Italy – giulia.bertuzzo@gmail.com
Narrative of place and Experiences of Interaction within  a “unitary ambient”: a format to design psycho-maps as narrative experiences. Drift aims to be a conceptual model for looking at the surroundings as a collective of micro stories.

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Mulhouse – Au Fil du Temps
NINA KLEIN, Germany – nina.kristin.klein@gmx.de
Weaving transmedia storyworlds with the collective memory. What are memories worth? How do you tell a story in a world where digital archives are hardly available anymore? How do you encourage residents to write new stories? How do you get an 360° degree view of a story? And tell a collaborative story that has not been written yet?

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Keys project
PRIMOZ MAHNE, Slovenia – primoz.mahne@gmail.com
The Keys is a story centered around a kiosk for duplicating keys in a small Croatian town. As keys are copied, secrets get unveiled and for some, their lives will never be the same.

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Bikensee – A participatory experience for urban cycling via twitter
FRANCESCO VILLA, Italy – francesco.villa@yahoo.it
Bikensee is an web-based application that allows you to tweet and report all the problems and all the resources for biking into a shared map. The website is a great tool for local administrations to identify most relevant problems on the street and for users to create a sense of ownership in the community. Being at the same time local and global, Bikensee gathers stories that connect different users in the world and inspire new solutions for a better future for urban cycling.

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Agile Chess
MATTHIAS JUNGWIRTH, Austria – www.agiles-schach.com, info@matthiasjungwirth.com
How do we cope with the fast-moving changes within information society? Strategical flexibility drives people to expand their possibilities by shaping their own space of action. Agile Chess is a brand new game concept that invites two opponents to strategically shape their chess board using 64 separate tiles.

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Ambrì Project - Life is born from conflict
ALESSANDRA MULLER GAVIN, CRISTIAN BUBOLA, Switzerland – alemuler@worldcom.ch
To look at Ambrì’s main street is like being in a western: it’s deserted, a row of houses on the left and the right, used-to-be shops and hotels, once probably full of people and life. An old butcher’s, with nice white tiles, now empty. If in Zurich or London it world have been converted in a cool club.