RECITE - RECITE - Research at SSoA - School of Architecture

RECITE Diagram
PhD one has won funding to collaborate on an Interactive Story Trail.
PhD one collaborated with site-specific theatre makers Slung Low
Slung Low's audiences follow the show through the streets of Hull
Mapping the City route plotted onto a virtual city model
RECITE Mapping the City website used to collect audience feedback
Illustrated intended interaction - Rosie Ward
Kinnect technology work in progress - Rosie Ward and Jung Yang
Interaction using video projector, light and camera - Rosie Ward
Manually matching a skeleton with human motion, Cong Ye
Using Kinect to drive synthetic model in real time, Cong Ye
Under developing system of fitting a skeleton into video, Cong Ye

RECITE (Rethinking a City's Theatres, Digital Creativity and Innovation)

Funded by the Cross-cutting Directors of Research and Innovation Network Scholarships in Digital World, the key purpose of RECITE is to undertake groundbreaking interdisciplinary research into the challenges of how a city's theatres, including both spaces and performances, could be digitally mapped, modelled and documented to such an extent that they can be reproduced and displayed on Web-based interactive virtual world technologies that are accessible and useful to a wide range of end-user applications. The UK is one of the world's leading countries for contemporary theatre and is endowed with one of the richest histories of theatre in the world. The mission of RECITE is to research appropriate methodologies and technologies such that the vast repositories of the theatre archives hosted around the country can be mined for the benefits of research, education and the creative industries.

Current Projects

Context-aware: Articulating place through pervasive practices. – Adam Park (PhD student), Dr Chengzhi Peng and Dr Daniela Romano

Performing the City – Rosie Ward (PhD student), Dr Carmen Szabo, Dr Steve Nicholson, and Prof Flora Samuel

Documenting Character Performance for Pre- and Post-Production Theatre Activities – Cong Ye (PhD student), Dr Steve Maddock and Dr Frances Babbage

Activities and Events

Adam Park has won funding as part of the University of Sheffield 'Festival of the Mind' to collaborate on 'Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Interactive Story Trail’ project with The Blue Shed and Sheffield Theatres.

Adam has also attended the following conferences:

'Common Grounds' - Colloquium exploring methodologies for researching
architecture and the built environment (Feb 2011).

'Interface 2011' (Symposium for humanities and technology) (July 2011) -
Talk delivered on Performative Mapping.

'TaPRA Annual Conference' Kingston University (Sept 2011) - presenting a paper on "Mapping the City - Exploring interactive media for the open-ended documentation of site-specific theatre."

'PQ11 - Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space & Design' as
an accredited research student.

Rosie Ward has attended the following:

Workshops & artist research residency: Tracing the Pathways, An Embodied Approach to Interpreting Performance Archives, 23/11/10 and MotionScape, Using Sensors for Performance & Installation" with Nic Sandiland 21-16th May 2011.

Research and practice lecture at The Collection Museum and Gallery, Lincoln in partnership with University of Lincoln, 03/02/11.

Delegate at CAiRO Documentation Summer School, University of Bristol 27-30th June 2011 and Digital Futures in Dance Conference, Bournemouth 2011.

Cong Ye has presented the following talks:

Ye, C. and Maddock, S. Documenting character performance using video-based approach, The 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology, InterFace 2011, University College London, UK, 27-29 July 2011.

Ye, C., Maddock, S. and Babbage F. Documenting character performance using modern technology, TaPRA Interim Symposium, University of Kent, 7th May 2011.