Convivial | Emerging Media Design Studio

Emerging media design and prototyping focusing on social impact storytelling projects

Cerro Pedernal, Abiquiu, NM to Twin Peaks, SF, CA

Convivial Design, Inc., a new Mexico corporation, is a creative studio designing storytelling approaches to new media and immersive experiences. Our journey from interactive design to immersive technologies includes collaborations with intersectional diverse cultural groups, artists, activists and media makers resulting in inclusive design of projects and products. Our passion for design and prototyping experiences focus on social impact voices and projects. We specialize in hybrid experiences blending documentary stories and emerging media storytelling. The goal of our projects is to augment memories by transporting audiences into personal realms of story and exploration. Our works live in the intersection of art, technology and story.

Convivial’s Name

Convivial is inspired by ideas in Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality (1973).

Patricia Roberts (Antelles)

As an Emerging Media Creator and evangelist Patricia works on cutting edge experiential media projects. Patricia designs immersive and traditional media content producing compelling experiences across multiple media and social channels. Her passion is amplifying the potential of interactive, augmented and virtual realities to traditional storytelling.

Patricia’s Bio & Resume

Melinda Hess

Melinda Hess is an artist, film editor and currently Director and producer of documentary films. Her career spans thirty years in film, video and interactive media. She extends her editing skills to interactive as a time-based media creator. Her background as a film editor inspires her interactive video sensibility and narrative approach to non-narrative storytelling. Melinda was the Filmmaker in Residence at the San Francisco The Jewish Film Institute (2015-2017).