Amplify & Ignite: Creative Practice in and With Communities

Data Theatre is a novel practice co-designed over the past two years by a multidisciplinary team at Northeastern University in collaboration with community groups in the Boston area. Our Civic Data Theatre process re-imagines what community meetings and data-informed democracies can include. In our process, community stakeholders collaborate with trained participatory theatre artists to examine, interpret, and create new information about a pressing local issue. Together, they translate quantitative data–a central language of government decision making–to stories, movements, feelings, and experiences that can be collectively examined by a broadly constituted group of community stakeholders. Read more about the project at https://camd.northeastern.edu/the-data-theatre-collaborative/.