Work the Workshop

Work the Workshop
Name	Phantasmatic Workshop
Location	De Bonte Zwaan
Date	2018/07/21
Time	13:00-16:30
PeopleOrganisations	Shailoh Phillips, Anja Groten
Type	HDSA2018
Web	Yes
Print	No

Schedule

Before the workshop
11.00 - welcome
12.30 Welcome HDSA2018 + intervention by Selby
12.00 Lunch


The workshop
13.00 How to give a workshop outline
13.00 Introduction automatic workshop
13.30 Phantasmatic Workshop Props
14.15 Re-group

14.30 Coffee break

14.45 Workshop Choreographies
15.30 Re-group
15.45 Prepping and practicalities
16.30 Wrap-up


After the workshop
16.45/17.00 moving to Fanfare (dinner on your own)
18.00 doors open
18.30 program starts

The Automated Workshop

Can a workshop be conducted ‘automatically’, that is, scripted in advance and executed without a human facilitator? The Automated Workshop is an experiment in developing rules, conditions, variables for a 'successful' workshop. Exercising the idea of a workshop being programmable, this experiment utilises technical concepts such as containers, wrapping, nesting, sequencing, if-then statements, debugging, as well as deliberate use of randomness and contingency. The premise of The Automated Workshop its applicability to a multiplicity of contexts.

• Participants form groups of 3
• Each group quickly sketches out 2-3 workshop cases (drawing from own experience)
• Based on commonalities of the workshops participants script 'pseudo-code' for an ultimate workshop.*

* Pseudocode is an informal illustration of the operating principle of a computer program or other algorithm. It uses the structural conventions of a normal programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode_{Subscript text}