ELRAT | European Lab for Robots in Arts and Theatre

Pick me up, kick me out!  On 21 February 2025, the Dutch newspaper NRC published an interview with Maaike Bleeker on the research project Acting Like a Robot, which concluded festively on 31 January 2025 at De Paardenkathedraal. Read the article here (in Dutch)

Designing Human-Robot Encounters for the CTRL + ALT + PLAY event From November 28 to November 30, 2024, researchers of the Dramaturgy for Devices project gathered in Utrecht for a second joint workshop to experiment with human-robot interactions. This time, we explored designing with and for encounters using the Rober robot – a table-like serving

Exploring the Relational and Performative Potential of Smart Materials On September 26, 2024, I attended the workshop “Expressive Mechanisms: From Petri-dish to Performativity” which took place at the Innovation:Lab at Theater Utrecht. The workshop was organised by 4TU.Design United, coordinated by Amy Winters from TU/e, and involved researchers of the Dramaturgy for Devices project to…