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Social and Community Theatre (SCT) is a methodology promoting active participation in cultural events with the aim to enable cultural awareness and transformative learning. This paper presents how SCT is enriched with the use of digital technologies to promote active participation of audiences before, during and after cultural interventions that are organized within the context of the Caravan Next project (http://caravanext.eu). We present a mobile app (cNext App - http://cnext.tuc.gr/app) that enables audiences to get informed about cultural interventions, participate, share and reflect on their experiences when attending such interventions, thus promoting transformative learning in an informal inclusive learning framework. Furthermore, we present how special software employing innovative input devices enables the use of digital marionettes in schools thus promoting drama-based digital storytelling learning scenarios.
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The work reported in this paper is implemented in the Caravan Next (Creative Europe 559286) project. Further use of the digital marionette software in schools is implemented in the e-ARTinED (Erasmus + ID 2015-1-SE01-KA201-012267) and the MultiLib (Erasmus + ID 2016-1-SE01-KA201-022101) projects.
The authors thank Nikos Blazakis for supporting this work by developing the original version of the marionette depicting the myth of Europe. They also thank Mrs Aliki Vitoriou, teachers in the 19th Primary School of Chania, Crete, Greece and her students for participating in the evaluation of the digital marionette software.
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Moumoutzis, N., Gioldasis, N., Anestis, G., Christoulakis, M., Stylianakis, G., Christodoulakis, S. (2018). Employing Theatrical Interactions and Audience Engagement to Enable Creative Learning Experiences in Formal and Informal Learning. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IMCL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_16
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