Non-linear storytelling workshop at Scuola Holden
- Stefania Boiano | Giuliano Gaia
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 4, 2020
Scuola Holden is the most famous creative writing school in Italy, being founded by celebrated writer Alessandro Baricco. We are happy to have been selected for teaching a very innovative course for their “Digital Storytelling” students.

The Scuola Holden
Scuola Holden was born in 1994 from a group of creative people and entrepreneurs including famed Italian writer Alessandro Baricco as a small creative writing school - it was called Scuola Holden because it aimed to be a school suitable for Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of Catcher in the Rye.
It has grown over the years in a "university of creativity", now hosted in a former bomb factory. Its focus is fostering absolute creativity in different fields, from writing to cinema to digital.

Our workshop
Being famed as a storytelling factory, Scuola Holden sees the world as stories to be told, in every field. That's why when we proposed them a workshop on chatbots as a form of non-linear storytelling, we immediately got their interest.
Chatbots are intriguing storytelling tools, because they involve anticipating the answers of the reader; in other words, you've got to create a conversation, not a one-way narration.
Challenging students into telling a story using a chatbot is a leap into the future.
"An experience very useful and effective... Thanks for all the care you took for our students" (Alice Avallone, Digital College Program Coordinator at Scuola Holden)
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