The Decameron Collective Collection features one of two storyworlds produced by its nine members who have met weekly since March 2020 to collaborate on a variety of artistic and scholarly activities.
Showcased here is "The Decameron 2.0, released in 2022. It is described by the Collective as “an interactive explorable web-based world that takes its cue from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval narrative set in Florence during the Black Plague. Featuring 100 co-created poetic thought experiments, it offers an audio, video, and textual living archive of life during the pandemic that centers women's experience." It received an Honorable Mention for the Electronic Literature Organization's (ELO) 2023 Robert Coover Award and has been exhibited at the Toronto Metropolitan University RUBIX Catalyst in 2022, at the ELO Media Arts Festival in Como, Italy in 2022, at ICIDS international conference in Kobe, Japan in 2023, and PhiloSOPHIA at the Mount Royal University Calgary in 2024.
This collection was gifted to The NEXT by the nine members of the Decameron Collective in January 2026.
