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AKO Storytelling Institute

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Where creative practice meets social transformation

We are the AKO Storytelling Institute

The AKO Storytelling Institute works at the intersection of storytelling and social change. As a part of University of the Arts London’s new Social Purpose Group, our mission is to enable storytellers and campaigners to make a greater social impact through their work. Through interdisciplinary experimentation and collaboration, we develop evidence-based approaches to the theory and practice of storytelling-for-change.

Our research programme is oriented towards fostering real world change through the development of theories, methods and toolkits for storytellers and campaigners to use further afield. We share what we find through public events and media such as podcasts, blogs and videos, as well as traditional academic research outputs.

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Developing a world-leading understanding of how narrative and storytelling can bring about change.
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