Where did the concept for an interactive experience of the earthquake in Haiti come from?
The role playing simulation is one part of the Inside Disaster multi-platform documentary project. Inside Disaster is a three-part documentary series about the Red Cross response in Haiti. From the footage and themes that emerged from our documentary and web footage from Haiti, we created an interactive website about Haiti and humanitarian work, and this first-person role-playing simulation. The whole Inside Disaster project began when the documentary director and producer, Nadine Pequeneza, approached the international Red Cross with the idea of following their team through their next major disaster response operation. After they agreed, the documentary and web team were “on hold” for months while we waited for the next natural disaster to happen, and the Red Cross to be called in. Even though at that time we didn’t know where the documentary would be filmed, we already created a loose framework for what we called the “interactive experience.” We knew that wherever the documentary tea
