GLOBAL VILLAGE DREAMS – Nachhaltiges Audience Development immersiver Hybridformate für Stadt & Land

The people playing are always more important than the game.

More than half of Germany's population lives in rural areas, where the cultural infrastructure is especially scarce. City-based artists often take an elitist stance towards rural audiences and produce work in and for metropolitan centers and audiences, while creatives in rural areas tend to work locally. "Global Village Dreams" comprises the evaluation of hybrid formats with regard to audience generation in urban/rural/digital spaces, and explores strategies for safe and genuine modes of participation beyond urban centers.

dos.fail hosts 3 labs to engage in dialogue with, respectively, theater scholars (FU Berlin), digitally competent young adults in rural areas (Verstehbahnhof/havel:lab e.V.), and immersion experts (Project Space Fortuna Wetten), and to explore the potential for audience development via participation, immersion and hybridity in performance formats. Each lab will be complemented by a keynote speaker on a topic relevant to the workshop: In- and exclusion of different audiences, the concept of audience in participatory formats, or data security and digital empowerment. A core element of the labs is the co-creation of a mini-game to playfully connect audiences and participants across the urban/rural divides in a hybrid space.

More detailed documentation of the lab can be found behind the following keywords, which invite you to browse.

• Website of the participants
• Online game
• blog

Jakob Bogatzki, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Havel:Lab e. V., Jörn Herrmann, Simon Salem Müller (sim), Wanja Neite, Jos Porath & Theresa Schütz