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Beyond the checklist:from compliance to culture–the LES relational framework for evaluating sustainability in film, TV & media production
No full textEfforts to green the film, television, and media industries have largely focused on technical compliance–emissions reduction, energy use, and material impacts–often operationalised through checklists and certifications. While valuable for establishing baseline practices, these approaches risk reducing sustainability to a regulatory exercise, overlooking the cultural, narrative, and relational dynamics that shape systemic change. This paper introduces the Lifestyle-Embedded Sustainability (LES) model as a holistic framework that evaluates sustainability both as a technical outcome and as a cultural process expressed across production, content, lifestyle, and distribution. Building on the Sustainable Production Value Chain (Kohle 2022), LES incorporates lifestyle integration and ethical coherence to move beyond ‘green consumerism’ and address the systemic dimensions of the climate crisis. Applying LES to three case studies, the paper argues for a shift from sustainability as compliance to sustainability as culture, resisting neoliberal tendencies to individualise responsibility (2017) and offering a relational lens for transformative media production.</p
Encounters in wartime : interactive technology and storytelling for digital heritage
No full textThe city archives of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) hold extensive World War II heritage, including diaries, letters, and photographs. To bring these stories to life an interactive exhibit was developed entitled ‘Encounters in Wartime’. This mobile, interactive exhibit, uses speech recognition technology to enable visitors to engage with three WWII-era characters through interactive dialogues. Using the four-stage conceptual model of virtual heritage preservation for visitor experience as a framework, this case study describes the design and development process of the exhibit, highlighting the challenges of applying storytelling tools and interactive technology to intangible heritage. We report on a pilot version of the exhibit, which was tested with visitors to a public event in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The findings indicate high visitor engagement and emotional connection with the characters as a result of the digital presentation. The study concludes with practical implications for integrating interactive technology and storytelling in the context of intangible heritage
