Rosie Poebright

 

Rosie is an experience architect and real-world game designer. Her work is guided by a simple mission: to make beautiful, genuinely moving experiences that put the participants at the centre of the action. To do this she uses an eclectic mix of tools - most importantly theatre, gaming, and digital technology.

As Creative Director of playful experience agency Splash & Ripple she works across live events (multi-location theatrical street games) and long term installed adventures in museums and heritage sites. An academic grounding in Psychology and Anthropology informs Rosie’s people-centric focus, she’s designed pervasive games and playful happenings since 2007.

Twitter: @SplashAndRipple / @rosiepoes

More about Splash and Ripple: www.splashandripple.com

Journal Entries

Journal Entries

Falling into place

Wed 22 Jan, 2014

The second week was pretty intense. The questions my group focused on were around creating interventions that brought different people together. We were also keen on making something that interrupted people in their normal everyday routine with a playful surprise. We ended up with two focused ideas, it felt like I was raiding the back of my ideas cupboard as both of the themes are ones that I've been quietly obsessing about for a few years now: doorways and crowd dynamics. Time to shake them out and give them a good airing.

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The inside-outsider

Wed 15 Jan, 2014

OK so here's the thing, don't tell anyone, but for me this is an inside job. Time to come clean: I and my company Splash & Ripple are resident at the Pervasive Media Studio, and I've been working making playful things in the streets of Bristol and London for many years. The upshot of this is that while it super-qualifies me to work on this project, so far I've known or worked with almost all of the speakers we've had.

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