Ghosts! Heritage design project and performance at Nottingham Castle grounds

Moneta, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9125-2806, 2022. Ghosts! Heritage design project and performance at Nottingham Castle grounds. Society for Artistic Research.

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Abstract

The aim of this research enquiry is to foster a collaboration with Nottingham Castle realising public activities to improve visitors’ engagement. Methods used to explore these enquiries involved Scenarchitecture, a trans-disciplinary methodology developed by Moneta, that uses the process of reading, understanding, and interpreting the Genius Loci as an in-depth exploration and expression of Spatial Practice and community engagement. Recent studies on phenomenology of Place (Relph, 1976; Alexander, 1977; Norberg-Schulz, 1980), and the role of Genius Loci in Placemaking (Brooks, 2001; Golan, 2012), are confirming the importance of considering a multidisciplinary approach to enhance heritage sites using perception and emotions. Heritage sites with their peculiar identity and character, provoke intense spatial experience in those who engage with them, having the quality of Place, i.e., the power to focus human experiences, and actions spatially. The enquiry was about researching and then revealing historical characters that had a role in the NC’s history, and to help audiences engage with them on a perceptual level through storytelling, site-specific performance and CosProps as the medium. The project involved six students of BA (Hons) Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University as part of the Realised Design curriculum, that selected and designed a CosProp for each character. They devised the performances in collaboration with six students of The Television Workshop in Nottingham. The work was funded in kind by NC (supporting staff and use of spaces and facilities) and by NTU (£1000.00). The final outcome is a promenade performance across different stories and characters located in specific places of the NC Grounds; the audience followed the promenade in small groups to adhere to Covid19 regulations. A questionnaire after the performances evidenced that ‘the performance enhanced the experience of the Nottingham Castle grounds’ (73.3%). The dissemination of the work includes pages on NTU and NC website and a video published on YouTube.

Item Type:	Website content
Description:	Website: Research Catalogue: an international database for artistic research
Creators:	Moneta, A.
Publisher:	Society for Artistic Research
Date:	22 January 2022
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.22501/rc.1501963 DOI 1510874 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Art and Design
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	24 Jan 2022 10:51
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2022 10:17
Related URLs:	Publisher
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45390

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