BA Interaction Design - 'Simulated Storytelling' live encounter session with graduate Nathan Costello.

Simulated Storytelling is a live encounter with a social robot inspired by the Seanchaí, the traditional Irish oral storyteller. Visitors are invited to sit with the artefact, hear it tell a story drawn from the folklore and landscape of the Dingle Peninsula, and then share a story of their own.

The session raises questions about what is lost and what is carried forward when technology becomes a mediator of living tradition. Who speaks when a machine tells a story? Who holds a memory when no one is left to remember it? The artefact does not claim to answer these questions. It simply opens a space in which they can be felt.

Drop in. Each storytelling encounter lasts approximately ten minutes.