This session introduces storytelling as a powerful tool for developing effective counter-narratives against disinformation. Participants will explore the key elements of compelling stories, including characters, conflict, and resolution, as well as visual narrative techniques that enhance audience engagement. The lecture also examines how factual information can be integrated into narrative formats and presents successful examples of counter-narrative campaigns that have effectively challenged misinformation and promoted informed public understanding.

In this creative workshop, participants work in teams to design a counter-narrative that addresses a clean energy or science-related disinformation topic through storytelling. Building on the concepts explored in previous sessions, each group develops a storyboard for a short video or comic, incorporating characters, dialogue, visual elements, and evidence-based factual anchors. The activity encourages creativity, collaboration, and strategic communication, while peer review sessions provide opportunities to refine ideas and strengthen the effectiveness of the final narrative.

This Open Educational Resource is an experiential scenario in which participants take on the role of scriptwriters. Inspired by the narrative format of TV series, the activity challenges teams to explore real locations on their campus and create fictional scenes that address actual disinformation narratives about clean energy — weaving verified scientific data into dramatic storytelling.