More Tales From the High Rise – 2007
In 2007 Inner South Community Health Service (ISCHS) High Rise Support Team and Swinburne University Design Centre continued the successful program – “Tales from the High Rise” – enabling older people from public housing communities to share their stories with a wider audience.
With the success of the previous years ‘Tales from the High Rise’, the 2nd instalment had secured funding and also extended the brief by including voices of non- English speaking tenants.
Our project, Tales from the High Rise, has resulted from a partnership established with Swinburne University’s Design Centre* (Prahran Campus), their students and 9 tenants (story tellers) from the High Rise Support Program estates (King St, Victoria Ave, Union St, and Inkerman St).
The project is a collaboration between the high-rise storytellers, Inner South Community Health Service and Swinburne Design Centre.
The tenants teamed up with Swinburne honours students to create three-minute videos that combine the storyteller’s voice with memorabilia from their personal archives, such as photographs, film, certificates, music and sound.
The second series built on the pilot, and included stories in languages other than English, and brought together the many different nationalities that live side by side in public housing in the inner south of Melbourne.