ABSTRACT
Project-based media pedagogy in short-term study-abroad experiences require students with diverse backgrounds to engage in collaborative multimedia production and creative experimentation. The project is a distillation of complex topics and meaningful themes and intended to be shared publicly; however, this essay focuses on the process, rather than the product, of team-based experimental multimedia design in a transformative educational setting. The intention of the final product is to cohere the creative work of students with a diversity of media production skill sets, approaches, and global perspectives through a pedagogy informed by listening, storytelling, and multimodal creating. This essay illuminates the pathways and methods of collective production necessary to empower students to create media that inspire social change and civic connectivity, while simultaneously raising critical awareness.
