The Garden of Just Because

360° videos experiences are views of different mushrooms found on the woodland floor at Wollaton Park, Nottingham. They were filmed during October and November 2020 and can be viewed on a mobile phone/ Google Cardboard or computer.

On computer-select play then use your mouse to “click & drag” to look all around. On mobile- select play then move your phone (left, right, up-down, etc. 360 degrees). 

The Garden of Just because

It is inspired by the kingdom of fungi and mycelium network that makes fairy circles. It is scheduled to open at Wollaton Hall in Spring/Summer 2021. The work was made during my time as artist-in-residence with the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity and is part of a larger interactive installation. 

Experience a 360 virtual tour of fungi taken from the Wollaton woodland floor. 
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Commissoner

Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity

WHAT We DID

360 Video/ Art  installation  / Educational Engagement

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Deep Sea Adventure

Inspired by ideas from local children, Deep Sea Adventures is an interactive voyage of discovery with coral reefs to crawl on, mysterious caves to explore, and giant fish that are not quite what they seem. The installation is designed for a child to play with their grown-ups and includes elements for crawlers and toddlers right up to children aged 10 years old.

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Customer

Theatre Hullabaloo & Becci Sharrock, in association with Makers of Imaginary Worlds

Creative Play Space -The Hullabaloo, Darlington

18th Nov 2019 – 20h March 2020

WHAT WE DID​

Design and craft interactive installation/ haptic and interactive sensing technologies

The Girl of Ink and Stars

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Commissioned specifically for library spaces the play is full of myth, magic and map-making – a story about children, their bravery and their curiosity.  Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella dreams of the faraway lands her father once mapped. When a girl from the village disappears into the island’s Forgotten Territories, Isabella and her lifelong friend Pablo go in search of her.

The performance was presented through headsets giving an immersive 360° sound experience. Toured Nottingham/shire, Leicester/shire and Rutland Libraries July / August 2019

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Company

A co-production by The Spark Arts for Children and Inspire: Culture, Learning & Libraries of a new play by Satinder Chohan, based on the book by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

WHAT WE DID​

Set & Costume Design

The Enchanted Forest

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About

Inspired by the ideas of local children, the Enchanted Forest is a magical interactive space with storytelling trees, luminous fairy ponds, and musical lily pads.  It was the result of my PhD research and was the interactive technologies were developed with Mixed Reality Lab. It proved a big hit with families and over 17,000 visitors experienced it when it closed in 2019.

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Customer

Makers of Imaginary Worlds and Theatre Hullabaloo 

November 2017- August 2018/ May-November 2019

 

WHAT WE DID​

Art Installation / interactive design / crafting

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Tickle sensors trigger stories
Heat of the forest-3d printed model
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The Runaway Hare

Sketch of installation/perfmance
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pathways
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The giant flower
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The Runaway Hare

It is a hide and seek adventure performance  for toddlers and their grown-ups. The audience is invited to become part of the story and join the performer in a curious, playful and sensory journey through a digitally enhanced performance.

The show was presented in collaboration with Nottingham Lakeside Arts and was developed and designed  as part of my PhD research at the University of Nottingham, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Mixed Reality Lab. My research  focused on the design of visual, sensory and interactive digitally enhanced performance spaces to harness young audiences innate playful nature.

The performance will engage audiences as co-creators through touch and interactive play. Some of the activities are child-led which allows them to influence the action, choose where to play and how to collaborate with the performer. 

Company

Lakeside Arts, Nottingham , January 2017

WHAT WE DID​

Design and built the Installation performance

Play Video

“Bringing digital into interactive theatre. Roma Patel is a designer and member of the Mixed Reality Laboratory who is looking to computing to provide extra engagement with young theatre-goers. Thanks to actor Sophie Johnson-Hill  This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile”

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Riot1831@Nottingham Castle

ABOUT

Riot 1831@ Nottingham Castle is a year-long R&D project that began in October 2013. The exhibition aims to provoke debate, support learning about protest and rebellion through time, and encourage participation by creating a new, exciting way to tell the story of a night the Castle was attacked in 1831. The project is developing a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) cross-platform app that offers visitors an active role in creating their narrative experience. It uses object tracking technology to superimpose onto the live objects -3D real-time computer environments, animated first-person performances and sounds onto museum objects that allow the visitors to simultaneously interact and experience the events of 1831 at the exhibition.

 

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Project Partners

Nottingham City Museums and Art Galleries, Nottingham Trent University (School of Art and Design), Hot Knife Digital Media Ltd and University of Nottingham. It is supported by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts – Nesta, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

July 2014-July 2018

WHAT WE DID​

Researcher and Artist /Augmented Reality/ Exhibition/ 

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Romeo And Juliet

Corcadorca’s Romeo and Juliet will present a modern approach to the tragic love story. 

COMPANY

CORCADORCA

Venue: Cork Opera House, 10-20 Oct 2012.

Dramaturg Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon
Directed by Pat Kiernan

Set Design – Roma Patel
Lighting Design – Paul Keogan
Costume Design – Catherine Fay
Composer – Maurice Seezer
Costume Design Assistant – Konrad Im
Sound Design – Fergus O’Hare
Assistant Composer – Peter Power
Video Design – Michael Hurley
Fight Director – James Cosgrave

WHAT WE DID​

Set Design

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