Mapping audience engagement of cultural organizations

Designing for Audience Engagement

I will start with a question that constantly lingers in the back of my mind as an experience designer, “how do I define what I do in a simple way?” For me, the practice of ‘experience design’ is designing for people with the objective of engaging them in positive experiences. Designing for people and engaging them requires knowing and thinking about the people who might use the specific product...

Stakeholder Engagement in Cultural Organizations: An Explorative Study on Participatory Theatre

This article explores the potentialities of the stakeholder engagement framework in the specific context of cultural organizations, underscoring the necessity to develop an interdisciplinary approach that combines the traditional managerial perspective with the contribution offered by other social disciplines, due to the peculiarities of the cultural mission pursued. Specifically, the article a...

Seeing what the audience feels: Live visualization of audience engagement during a music event

This thesis evaluates the influence of audience engagement as an aesthetic element for providing visual enhancement to a music concert. The audience engagement is gathered using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensors, which the audience wears on their hands during the concert. In a small experimental setting two visualizations are compared: the first visualization is driven only by the music of t...

A sensorimotor model for audience engagement with dance

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Mapping Terrorist Organizations