Dr Rosie Poebright
Rosie is a story experience architect, digital artist and real-world game designer with a Doctorate in Audience Participation, who has designed pervasive games and playful happenings since 2007.
Projects
A Knight's Peril
A Knight’s Peril is Splash & Ripple's new 14th Century interactive investigation set at National Trust's Bodiam Castle.Worked on
MyWorld - Strength in Places
Watershed is excited to be a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media.Rosie is a story experience architect, digital artist and real-world game designer with a Doctorate in Audience Participation, who has designed pervasive games and playful happenings since 2007.
As Director of playful agency Splash & Ripple they make experiences that transport people from their normal everyday to the extraordinary where they can explore new ways of thinking, feeling and being. They work across both live events (multi-location theatrical street games), embodied audio experiences played anywhere and long term installed adventures using theatre, game design and screenless digital technology to enable embodied audience interactivity.
Public art commissions include Metal’s Netpark in Southend (2016) and Playable City Recife (2015) and Playable City Seoul (2017). Commercial heritage commissions which enabkle audience action in interpretation include such clients as National Trust, English Heritage, National Museums Scotland, the Hoburne Museum and Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust.
Rosie’s academic grounding in Psychology and Anthropology informs their people-centric focus, and their PhD explores what it is that makes action and participation so powerful for audiences. Their ongoing research through experimentation involves exploring how new technologies can unleash audiences into new forms of action and participation.
They started a 10 month Watershed MyWorld Fellowship as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme in December 2023, focusing on the Future of Radio with Bauer Media.
They're really excited to be using their knowledge and skills in designing interactive audience experiences with a leading broadcast company to speculate on the future of radio over the next 10-20 years. Working with Bauer Media and academics to conceptualise how it will layer into our everyday lives in a world shaped by AI and responsive technologies.
