As a self-confessed Luddite I admit that there are some transformative apps out there. Since learning about the whiteboard app Miro in a Disaster Design course I’ve been applying it to collaborative creative processes, and it’s solving many issues. Working remotely or internationally, lack of contact between writers/designers/composers, ideas that fall by the wayside, performers who come in with scant knowledge of what’s gone before: these are all recurring problems in developing works for theatre.
For sea-of-ideas visual thinkers, Miro is a way to map the evolution of ideas, where your research, notes, sketches and asides can cohabit. People you invite to the board can contribute, comment, track progress or just get a quick overview.
Next month we’ll be running an intensive puppet design and construction workshop at Terrapin, with six local emerging makers. I’ll be trialling the use of Miro as a teaching tool, and have high hopes that it will help to map the entangled call-and-response of design, material, and method.