This hands-on workshop draws from Dr. Pearce’s book Playframes (www.playframesbook.com) to demonstrate “Social Scaffolding,” a method for leveraging players’ shared social and cultural knowledge to guide them into appropriate interaction in live performance. Based on extensive social science, games, larp and theatre research, Dr. Pearce outlines a pragmatic approach to crafting for players’ innate social and cultural knowledge to provide them with intuitive guidelines without the use of elaborate instructive tutorials. This highly creative workshop introduces the application of basic social science concepts from sociology, anthropology and performance studies that can be immediately applied to the creative development of playable theatre projects.
From the Artist
My recent As a multiplayer game designer with an interest in emergent behavior, my recent work has involved applying principles of emergent behavior to live interactive theatre. My recent book Playframes, which focuses on the question of how we know we’re playing, begins with the premise that humans recognize behavioral expectations based on social cues. This idea can be leveraged as a creative tool for participatory theatre designers by providing what I call “social scaffolding,” which is a way to let people’s inherent social knowledge inform the possibility space for agency in a live theatre context.
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Warning: This workshop will be creative, practical and fun
Warning: This workshop will be creative, practical and fun
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