The Little Prince's Journey
Age: All Ages
Type: Interactive website
Language: Twine
Platform: Browser
Mentor: Giovanna di Rosario
Mentees: Ana Doric, Ignacia Gonzalez, Surabhi Gupta, Taniya Maji, Yousef Taffal, Haleh Kazemzadeh
Roles & Additional Authors: Visual editor: Ana Doric, Website executor: Haleh Kazemzadeh, Illustrations: Surabhi Gupta, Prototyping and animations: Yousef Taffal and Taniya Maji, Information gathering: Ignacia González
Short Description: A motion graphic artwork about war and poetry
Longer Description: The primary concept was to develop a website to provide an interactive experience. The ideation, mapping and initial execution of the prototype were performed on Figma. Supporting visual elements of colors, illustrations and typography were used along with linkages for the sake of animation. This was later on translated into a website with the help of HTML, CSS & Javascript. This website is used as a channel in order to give an interactive experience of chosen chapters of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, completed with visual elements (text, illustrations and calligrams). The chosen chapters are X-XV, which follows a young prince as he travels across space. By visiting numerous planets, he meets different people who in a way help him to explore many important and complex issues that most of us are facing during our lifetime. Some of them are tolerance, love, respect, human delusions, friendship and work. The viewer/user can experience the perception of traveling along with the prince by choosing to hop onto the asteroid of choice.
Mentoring Context: Created in a course on digital literature taught by Giovanna di Rosario in Digital Culture at Politecnico di Milano.
Bios: This is a group of six students enrolled in the Communication Design Master Degree Program at Politecnico di Milano. The members of the group are from different parts of the world: Chile, India, Iran, Lebanon and Serbia. The six members met in a course dictated at the university, called “Digital Culture”, imparted by professor Giovanna Di Rosario, and developed this project for one of the assignments of the class. The group worked together during the whole semester for this course, and as a final assignment they had to remediate a text to create some digital literature.
