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Inclusive Participation: Meaningful Real-time Co-Creation
Inclusive Participation: Meaningful Real-time Co-Creation
Explore how immersive technologies can make participatory, site-responsive live performance more inclusive, particularly to enable audiences who are not literate, not tech-confident, and/or have sensory impairments to contribute meaningfully.
Through consultations with technologists and access experts, I will investigate how technologies can help capture authentic audience responses in real-time and support personalised live experiences, where every audience member actively shapes the performance and becomes a co-creator.
Can immersive technologies unlock new ways for audiences to actively participate in site-responsive live performance, particularly those excluded from traditional engagement?
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£5,000
Aims of the project
My focus is on making participation meaningful, emotionally engaged, personalised, and accessible so it can actively shape a show’s narrative in real time. I’m currently developing participatory site-responsive works and want to explore embedding inclusive immersive technologies within the early stage of the process.
Questions to explore are:
How can immersive technologies enable audiences who are not literate, not tech-confident, and/or have sensory impairments to contribute meaningfully and emotionally?
How can technologies capture authentic emotional responses in real time and present them to a creative team or audience to input into live performance, at scale, outdoors?
What prompts, tools, or invitations most effectively encourage authentic contributions?
How can technologies support personalised audience experiences or track individuals in real time —addressing people by name, tailoring interactions—without excluding those unfamiliar with technology?
Amy Pitt
Lead Artist
she/her
Amy is an Artist, Theatre Maker and Set and Costume Designer, working in large-scale, site responsive theatre and installation design. She makes work collaboratively, and often devises narratives, designs and experiences through a process of exploration, involving place, people and play. Amy makes multifaceted work that often takes unexpected paths, the way it’s executed depends on where it’s made and who the audience is. Is it live, or does it exists in the form of a book, is it both those things or neither. Ideas are ever evolving and revisited.
Amy is an associate artist at Wildworks, a landscape theatre company and over the past 16 years I have worked as a Designer and Visual Artist for Punchdrunk, Punchdrunk Enrichment, Nigel and Louise, Battersea Arts Centre, National Youth Theatre, National Theatre Wales and Museum of London.
Dr. Will Renel
Access Consultant
he/him
Director of Research at Tourettes Hero, working on this project to have conversations about inclusive participation.
Sam Clear
Creative Technology Consultant
he/him
Project Manager at Clockwork Dog, working on this project to have conversations about live show control systems and integrated real time response.
Michele Panegrossi
Creative Technologist
he/him
Specialising in interactive installations, augmented reality (AR), and audio spatialisation, working on this project to explore through conversations about how creative technologies could work to get meaningful real time co creation with audience members.
