Partnered with Laila
Overarching Theme: Competing perspectives that there is a trade off between the digital world and the natural environment.
Realization: That the two can actually harmoniously coexist when balance is examined and realized it can be implemented into ones life.
Our interactive webcomic shares the story of a girl born and raised in the city who feels lost in the rapidly expanding digital world attributed to her position as a social media influencer. Where her daily life is to look through the lens of a screen to present a utopian society. Whilst watching “Planet Earth”, she has the sudden realization that she isn’t really “living” in the real world. On a quest to soul search, achieve self fulfillment, and reconnect with the natural world, she decides to disconnect from any form of social media, travel and see some of the world’s most beautiful natural places. Through our website, the reader will be able to navigate through panels showing her journey and interact with the website, making some choices for the character that will progress the story line. At the end, she realizes that she cannot take nature for granted and she cannot always be dependent on technology, she learns that these two things can actually coexist within her day to day life.
The places we are considering for inclusion in our interactive comic include:
- Grand Canyon
- Amazon Rainforest
- Great Barrier Reef
- Morocco Merzouga
- Mt Everest