channelling the magic: applying improvised theatre and comedy to ux design
DESCRIPTION
Workshop at UX Cambridge 2012: Improvised theatre skills help us access our creativity, to work collaboratively and with more empathy. Watching and playing good improvised theatre can feel like magic. In this session you will learn the basic techniques improvisers use to cocreate something from nothing, a vocabulary to describe your experiences, and how to apply these techniques in your design work. You will experience the wonderful, visceral "yes and" feeling of collaborative cocreation, where ideas emerge rapidly and spontaneously to deliver results whose value often far exceeds the sum of individual contributions. Using the same basic techniques, you will even learn how to develop your own ideas to their full potential in your solo work. You'll also have a lot of fun!TRANSCRIPT
Session Title
Channelling the Magic: Applying Improvised Theatre and Comedy to UX Design
Session Type
HandsOn
Duration 90 minutes
Session Description
Improvised theatre skills help us access our creativity,
to work collaboratively and with more empathy.
Watching and playing good improvised theatre can feel
like magic. In this session you will learn the basic
techniques improvisers use to cocreate something
from nothing, a vocabulary to describe your
experiences, and how to apply these techniques in your
design work. You will experience the wonderful,
visceral "yes and" feeling of collaborative cocreation,
where ideas emerge rapidly and spontaneously to
deliver results whose value often far exceeds the sum
of individual contributions. Using the same basic
techniques, you will even learn how to develop your
own ideas to their full potential in your solo work. You'll
also have a lot of fun!
Speaker(s) Antony Quinn
Antony is an interaction designer with 15 years
experience in genomics, healthcare and finance.
Antony is passionate about improvised theatre. He has
performed with Little Chairs Theatre Company and
WRiTEON, and has studied under Keith Johnstone,
author of "Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre". He
enjoys storytelling and creative writing, and his first play
was performed recently in Cambridge.
www.antonyquinn.co.uk
Clare Kerrison (Cambridge Improv Factory)
Clare is an improvisation tutor and arts administrator in
Cambridge. She hails from Wellington, New Zealand
where she was employed as Business Manager for
NZ’s foremost developmental theatre. She has also
served as a workshop leader for corporate leadership
events, creative director for the Wellington
Improvisation Troupe, location analyst for automatic
teller machines and project administrator for an online
banking design team. She has an Advanced Diploma
in Performance Art from NASDA. Clare performs with
the Cambridge Improv Factory and London's Wilmops.
She is a member of the Applied Improvisation Network.
www.clarekerrison.co.uk