‘Providence Waterways’ From Doors Open RI

Doors Open RI is launching an ambitious, multi-media collaborative project called Providence Waterways.

Providence Waterways is a multimedia, collaborative, storytelling project by Doors Open RI. Through a combination of online and onsite experiences, Providence Waterways invites you to immerse yourself in place-based stories, sounds, and events that explore Providence’s water.

The stories are available now; the sounds are coming soon; and there is one live event, Tidal Resonance, scheduled for later this month at India Point Park.

Check out the interactive StoryMaps and, coming soon, Sound Journeys, an augmented-reality sound project that aims to get you out and about, exploring the areas around the waterways of Providence. Bring your headphones.

From Providence Monthly:

Participants can journey through waterways via three separate experiences. The first is a digital StoryMap, where users can click locations on a map and consume accompanying content sourced from interviews with local historians and activists, available in both English and Spanish. The second experience is an interactive soundscape that changes based on a participant’s physical location. “Different sounds and stories will emerge based off of where you are,” Stevens says. Lastly, Doors Open RI will host an in-person, day-long event on August 21, free and open to the public, featuring “immersive artistic experiences” curated by Shey Rivera Ríos and Seth Tourjee.