The Heckle System used at the National Theatre
Here’s a short post about one of our tools for participation and conversation: the Heckle System from Saul, The People Speak’s researcher in residence.
Heckle is the tool we use to create instant, shareable visualisations of conversations as they happen – you might have seen it in use if you’ve ever been to a Talkaoke, or watched how people at our events post up images, videos and tweets to the video stream of what’s happening.
In a project with Emerge and Artquest, The People Speak created an interactive session, partially based on a game show and a game of Snakes and Ladders that got together with a Monopoly board.
The idea was to get artists and artists facilitators to exchange strategies, ideas, information and contacts in a fun way. As we went along Zsolt, our lightning fast illustrator updated the fantasy map of the London artworld.
Fantasy Map of the London Artworld. Need to KnowledgeFantasy Map of the London Artworld. Need to Knowledge
This is what he came up with
You can view the “Heckle” stream of this event part one here:
Romance isn’t dead. It remains under continuous threat, as necessary as it is to the human essence, but ‘the table of chat’ gives you one more reason to believe.
Talkaoke returns to Braziers Park for this years Supernormal Festival, but we brought a little something extra to the festival. This year Talkoake was situated inside our very own inflatable structure called ‘Home Sweet Dome’, which has been specifically designed for community events and festivals.
and the cool lights effect pictures and the peculiar “blow-up venue” – the Home Sweet Dome on our Flickr account.
Sharing makes the world go around. This is for people that like to be inspired. For people that like to laugh. For people that enjoy the art of ranting. Ultimately for people like you.
The latest episode of the David Mitchell Soapbox series was edited and animated by our very own Zsolt Balogh, “Visualiser Master”, as part of The People Speak Media Lab Productions.
