In the Name of Wild

Dr. Vannini was awarded an Internal Grant for Research to travel to UNESCO sites to form a project exploring the relationship between naming and the cross-cultural meanings of wildness.

“In the Name of Wild” is a transmedia-ethnographic research project that explores cross-cultural meanings of wildness and the consequences of naming landscapes natural, wild, or pristine. The transmedia-ethnographic research project will visit 10 Canadian UNESCO World Heritage Natural Sites and 14 International Sites. The 5 year project will culminate in an interactive documentary of site-specific stories from the people who live and work in these places, as well as a feature documentary, and two books.