PLUGIN

A lightweight, modular format that integrates narrative design into existing programs, events, or gatherings.

PLUGIN functions as an add-on or narrative layer, enhancing hackathons, festivals, conferences, or labs by introducing storytelling frameworks, world coherence, and narrative strategy without altering the core structure of the host program.

SESSIONS

Focused workshops centered on specific narrative practices.

SESSIONS explore topics such as worldbuilding, immersive storytelling, spatial narrative, or transmedia systems through hands-on exercises, collective discussion, and rapid experimentation. They can be adapted to different audiences, timeframes, and levels of experience.

ISLAND

An intensive, immersive format developed over multiple days.

ISLAND is conceived as a temporary narrative ecosystem where participants disconnect from habitual workflows to prototype story systems, worlds, or experiences in depth. This format prioritizes process, collaboration, and sustained focus, often resulting in functional prototypes or conceptual frameworks.

WORLDBUILDING

The design of narrative worlds as systems.

This theme explores how environments, rules, and relationships generate meaning over time. Worldbuilding shifts storytelling away from linear plots toward living systems that can be inhabited, explored, and reconfigured.

Explored through StoryHackers activations at Berlinale Talents and SXSW.

STORYTELLING XR

Narrative design beyond the frame.

This theme focuses on storytelling across extended realities, including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. It explores how presence, agency, spatial structure, and embodiment reshape narrative experience when stories unfold through movement, interaction, and perception rather than linear sequences.

Developed through StoryHackers activations in hackathon and lab contexts such as MIT Reality Hack, SXSW , MUTEK and ONA.

BIT STORYTELLING

Narrative at the scale of fragments and systems.

Bit Storytelling examines how stories are constructed and circulated across digital and transmedia environments. It approaches narrative as a modular system composed of fragments, signals, and interactions that can be recombined and activated across platforms, temporalities, and contexts.

Explored through StoryHackers activations at UBA, SXSW and Berlinale Talents.

SPECULATIVE FUTURES

Storytelling as a tool for inquiry.

This theme uses speculative narrative and worldbuilding to imagine possible futures, question dominant technological and social narratives, and explore emerging scenarios. Futures are treated not as predictions, but as prototypes—spaces for experimentation, critique, and collective imagination.

Developed through StoryHackers activations at institutions and programs such as UBA CITEP and international research labs.

Available for general audiences and educators.

MYTHS AND MACHINES

Ancient narrative structures in contemporary systems.

This theme investigates the persistence of myth, archetype, and symbolic structures within technological cultures. It explores how machines, algorithms, and interfaces reshape storytelling, belief systems, and collective imaginaries, connecting ancestral narratives with contemporary digital systems.

Explored through StoryHackers activations in cultural and academic contexts, including University of Buenos Aires and international festivals.

PALE GREEN PIXEL

A distributed theme for sustained exploration.

Pale Green Pixel extends StoryHackers practice into an online environment, enabling long-term inquiry beyond physical labs. It supports collective research, shared experimentation, and ongoing dialogue around hybrid storytelling and narrative systems.

Developed through online cohorts and international learning communities.