ABSTRACT
Storytelling, sometimes called narrative discourse racters or entities which result in the rise and fall of dramatic tension. This chapter looks at the relationship between the narrative and environment nodes in the tripartite narrative environments network. The examples below demonstrate that the spatial dimension of narrative environments has often been considered secondary to the content; in other words, the narrative node in the three-node network has often been privileged over the environment node. Stories follow a pattern; they rise to a peak of tension or climax and then taper off towards resolution. This understanding of dramatic structure was diagrammed and described as a narrative arc by the German novelist and playwright Gustav Freytag who analysed ancient Greek and Shakespearian drama. Four different subcategories of linear storyshapes: prescribed routes, pulsed flow, there-and-back-again and inner sanctum. In summary, the role of environment is essential to storytelling in narrative environments, regardless of whether they are brand spaces, cultural environments or urban realm.
