IT and New Training Programmes:
smartPLAYshops
Releasing the freedom of play. . .
Workshops are most successful, productive and enjoyable when they incorporate a real sense of PLAY, allowing for creative expression, role-play and the release of the tensions and inhibitions we develop as adults in the working world. In the PLAYshops, we aim to create safe spaces for experimentation and knowledge sharing between disciplines and working styles, to enable a vital release of the creative energy required to achieve high level aims in any field. We combine each PLAYshop with a Thinktank to dig deeper into the theory and cultural context of each piece of work or new interface explored, and we document each in video, text and multimedia formats to ensure that an archivable resource is created for future researchers and makers.
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PAST PLAYSHOPS
Completed PLAYshops include:
Gender, Theatre and Beyond: a hands-on workshop on playwriting and technology tools, in collaboration with Sphinx and Theatre and Beyond;
Free Flight, a workshop at the Oval House Theatre for artists with disabilities providing training in empowerment technologies, held as part of the EXPOSURE Festival;
Virtual Interactive Puppetry in collaboration with CATlab (NYU) and Petra Kuppers of The Olimpias Performance Research Projects, leading a PLAYshop for disabled artists in Liverpool, as part of the Effecting Change: The Future of Disability Arts conference at LIPA;
Féileacán Flies, in collaboration with Media Lab Europe and the Central Rehabilitation Centre in Dublin, using the SMARTshell as a tool to enable disabled children to explore their creative potential in performance.
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