The Living Lab started with storytelling for sustainability, documenting stories on WSU campuses such as South Vineyard Creek, involving students, researchers, practitioners. With the pandemic, whilst it was initially possible to do site visits earlier in the piece, later the project needed to shift focus to work on a prototype app that could include elements such as video content. It would capture elements incorporating the ecology, flora and fauna of the site, from mangroves to eucalypts, powerful owls in swamp mahogany trees, eels in the creek, eastern water dragons. All In the middle of an industrial site next to the university involving urban conservation and Landcare restoration. We are now at another stage of combining documentary storytelling for another project drawing on many of the research practices developed through these processes. Called Lively Labs: Improving research storytelling through STEM/HASS in class activities, Vincent Tay and I are working with scientist Alexie Papanicolaou and a team of researchers and lecturers working with students to communicate a range of research projects.