“When we listen deeply, and tell stories, we build a just and healthy world.”
—StoryCenter.org
The Resemblage Project uses creative digital methods to explore how aging is shaped by place, identity, and belonging—and how stories can foster connection across generations.
Digital storytelling blends voice, image, memory, and creative practice to share lived experience in multimedia form. A digital story is a short, first-person narrative that weaves together visual and auditory media (such as stock images, home video, illustrations, music, sound effects, and voiceover) in the form of a short video that can be shared widely online.
As of January 2026, The Resemblage Project encompasses three phases of aging-related digital storytelling research and creation:
INTERGENERATE
Inter/Generate digital story gallery (2018-19) The inaugural phase of the project, featuring early digital stories on aging created through the Inter/Generate program and exhibit. Read the 2019 curatorial statement here.
Learn MoreSTAYING WITH
Staying With digital story gallery (2021-22) A collection of digital stories on aging developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, capturing experiences of isolation, resilience, caregiving, and community connection during a period of global disruption.
Learn MoreDIGITAL KUUMBA
Digital Kuumba digital story gallery (2025-) The most recent era of the project (2025-), produced in collaboration with TAIBU Community Health Centre. Featuring digital stories created by Black and racialized older adults in the eastern Greater Toronto Area.
Learn MoreAs both artistic expression and theory-making practice, digital storytelling is based on the principle that we are all experts of our own lives.
Digital storytelling blends voice, image, memory, and creative practice to share lived experience in multimedia form. A digital story is a short, first-person narrative that weaves together visual and auditory media (such as stock images, home video, illustrations, music, sound effects, and voiceover) in the form of a short video that can be shared widely online.
In the context of aging, digital storytelling offers powerful ways to document life stories, community histories, and intergenerational knowledge.
For most of us, this was our first time creating a digital story. These works emerge from a place of intergenerational wisdom and lived experience. Using our own voices—and those of our communities—we craft counter-narratives to dominant discourses of decline that too often shape public conversations about aging. In doing so, we also expand what is possible, visible, and valued within Age Studies.
Our storybank gathers and curates digital stories of aging in Scarborough and beyond. Here, aging appears as lived experience, community history, creative expression, and collective memory—across time, place, and generation.
