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The results of the partnership were showcased in the first week of Hack the Barbican, a four week festival of digital culture that brought together theatre performers, computer scientists, sculptures, hardware hackers, teachers and musicians. Hide&Seek’s event, a playtest arcade, feature two prototype games that featured motion controller technology.

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Alexandra Reynolds’s residency took the rich history of VisitorStudio as a starting point, assessed contemporary equivalents and cultural / technological changes, and reviewed the potential for a contemporary re-design of the programme.

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fanSHEN’s Research in Residence project concerned the promotion of environmentally sustainable lifestyles, demonstrated by a theatre production that provided all its energy. Building upon work technology created for their GreenandPleasantLand show, which featured pedal powered sound, fanSHEN customised four gym machine to generate power for their new play Cheese.

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Katherine’s residency at CBD involved further research into Maori art and Culture leading to the creation of a full-length work, creating a new dance language and portraying Maori myth and legend as potential narrative, the work premiered at Birmingham International Dance Festival 2014.

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Research carried out by Holmes found that the learning environment that AiL creates is one of ‘empowering space’ between both pupils and teachers, this can be seen when the adventure is introduced to the class and the teachers know as little about it as the pupils, so for the first time the teachers are cast as their pupils’ peers.