Carbon Dioxide Theatre

Creator: RISE|Art form: Performing arts|Knowledge valorisation : Co-creation|Place: Västmanland,Sweden |Location : Offline|Target group: Students / youngsters|Domains: Climate Action and Environment|Duration : Participatory process

Improvisational theatre as method for approaching complex societal issues

Challenge: Improvisation workshops where actors, researchers and designers collaborate with youngsters to understand climate knowledge, address their anxieties and come up with ideas for positive actions relevant to their lifestyles.

Improvisation workshops where actors, researchers and designers collaborate with youngsters to understand climate knowledge, address their anxieties and come up with ideas for positive actions relevant to their lifestyles.

Visual material is created to communicate climate science in accessible ways, and props are made for use in the improvisation scenes. The actors use improv to understand the lifestyles of the youngsters in order for them to come up with ideas of climate actions.

Resources needed

Improvisational actors, experts in the knowledge field of the challenge to be addressed, location for hosting the workshops

Purpose of artistic intervention

Visual materials communicate climate information in an accessible way, and improvisational activities used to understand the lifestyles of youngsters. Improvisational actors create scenarios relevant for the context of the challenge to be addressed and improvisational theatre allows the topic to be adressed from an embodied and emotial perspective.