Joslin McKinney is Associate Professor in Scenography, Deputy Head of School and Programme Manager for the postgraduate course in Performance Design in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK.
Scott Palmer is Associate Professor in Scenography at the University of Leeds, UK and co-convenor of the International Federation of Theatre Research Scenography Working Group.

Its global reach - it looks at scenography in an international context, and gives examples from across the world of how performance design makes meaning for audiences

Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword - Arnold Aronson

Introducing 'Expanded' Scenography - Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer

Section 1: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE
1 Devices of Wonder: globalizing technologies in the process of scenography - Christopher Baugh (University of Leeds, UK)
2 Screen Space: Bearing Witness & Performing Resistance - Dorita Hannah (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Section 2: ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
3 Between Symbolic Representation and New Critical Realism: Architecture as Scenography and Scenography as Architecture - Thea Brejzek (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
4 City as Site: Street Performance and Site Permeability during the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil, Chile, 2012-2015 - Marcela Oteiza (Wesleyan University, CT, USA)

Section 3: AGENCY
5 Scenography Matters: Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique - Jane Collins (University of the Arts, London, UK) and Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
6 Scenographic Agency: A Showing-doing and a Responsibility for Showing-doing - Kathleen Irwin (University of Regina, Canada)
7 Thinking that Matters: Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Performance Design - Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

Section 4: AUDIENCES
8 Audience Immersion, Mindfulness and the Experience of Scenography - David Shearing (University of Leeds, UK)
9 Cognitive Approaches to Performance Design, or How the Dead Materialize and Other Spectacular Design Solutions - Stephen Di Benedetto (University of Miami, FL, USA)

Section 5: MATERIALITY
10 The Matter of Water: Bodily Experience of Scenography in Contemporary Spectacle - Nebojsa Tabacki (University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany)
11 Ecologies of Autism: Vibrant Space in Imagining Autism - Melissa Trimingham (University of Kent, UK)

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