The Once Upon a Time project

The Once Upon a Time projects asked students to consider how children’s stories can be used to counter negative stereotypes and dysfunctional norms. Students studied academic literature, and also interviewed authors, booksellers, illustrators and storytellers, and took skills workshops on narrative writing, storytelling, and illustration. The project produced a series of children’s stories to counter some of the more destructive narratives in existing children’s literature.

Supervisors: Maria Ioannou, Theisje van Dorsten