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Postdramatic theatre in smart city design

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AcademicMindtrek '16: Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Mindtrek Conference

Pages 462 - 465

https://doi.org/10.1145/2994310.2994361

Published: 17 October 2016 Publication History

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Theatre provides powerful ways to engage people in the development of visions for future interactions, yet theatre is seldom used beyond scenario acting in interaction design. In this workshop the participants are exposed to a novel understanding of theatre, called Postdramatic Theatre, which has emerged as an Avant-garde movement in theatre community to break free of traditional characteristics of theatre, especially the dramatic text, mimesis and the exclusion of the 'real' in a play. Inspired by Postdramatic Theatre we introduce three novel formats of engagement for smart city design: Multi-stakeholder Theatre, Field Study Theatre and Future Product Theatre. The use of these formats will be explored in the context of particular foci that will be developed in collaboration with the workshop participants. As the result the participants are expected to become sensitive to the differences of Dramatic and Postdramatic Theatre and have better readiness to conceive of the potential of Postdramatic Theatre for their own design practice and research.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581526
Ryöppy MLamas DSarapuu HŠmorgun IBerget G(2020)Negotiating Experiences and Design Directions through Object TheatreProceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society10.1145/3419249.3420169(1-13)Online publication date: 25-Oct-2020
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Wood CPoslad SKaniadakis AGabrys JMival OSmyth MDalsgaard P(2017)What Lies AboveProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/3064663.3064757(161-172)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064663.3064757

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