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X-WR-CALNAME:Theatrical Co-Design with Families: Exploring Sustainability t
 hrough the Creation of a Mixed- Reality Installation
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SUMMARY:Theatrical Co-Design with Families: Exploring Sustainability throug
 h the Creation of a Mixed- Reality Installation
DESCRIPTION:BritCHI 2026 · Paper Session 2: Immersive and Embodied Experie
 nces\nPanagiotidis\, Patel\, Koleva\, Benford\, Spence\, Tennent\, Martine
 z Avila\, Cliffe\nCo-designing with families for environmental sustainabil
 ity relies on participatory imagination\, yet habitual family roles and un
 even voice\, especially between adults and young children\, often constrai
 n it. A second challenge is translation across phases: workshop relationsh
 ips and embodied ways of working do not easily survive into the final desi
 gn\, where artefacts travel more frequently than roles or interactional dy
 namics. We report on a nationally toured mixed-reality installation develo
 ped through applied-theatre-led co-design. Across three workshops\, a prof
 essional theatre facilitator used applied theatre methods to support famil
 ies to co-create narratives\, artefacts\, and interactional roles\, and to
  re-stage workshop ecologies in the public encounter. We show how theatric
 al co-design fostered richer dialogue and collective creativity that persi
 sted beyond workshops. We distil three design orientations for co-creating
  mixed-reality performances through applied theatre: rebalancing participa
 tion through status play\, sustaining embodied practice across phases\, an
 d re-staging workshop ecologies within the installation.
LOCATION:Brunel University London\, Kingston Lane\, Uxbridge UB8 3PH
URL:https://www.britchi.uk/programme/schedule/paper-session-2-immersive-and
 -embodied-experiences/
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