Scenario Colloquium with Dr. Tatiana Chemi - Tuesday 27th January 2026

We are excited to announce the 29th Scenario Colloquium on Tuesday 27th January 2026: 

The colloquium is organized in two parts: 1) presentation and 2) dialogue and hands-on group experimentation. The topic focuses on theatre laboratories as ways of organizing artistic, pedagogic and research work in theatre ensembles. Through an historical review of the origins of theatre laboratories we dwell on the case of Odin Teatret, one of the most long-lived theatre groups in history. The dialogue will invite participants to explore how artistic tools can be used in education and learning environments, with a focus on theatre laboratory as organizing frame. How can education “steal “from theatre laboratory's creativity and approach to pedagogy? The reflection exercises (or creative provocations) will invite participants into visions for future educational programmes inspired by the presentation.

Literature:
Chemi, T. (2018). Theatre Laboratory as Space for Learning. In A Theatre Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy and Creativity (pp. 1-44). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (Tilgængelig online via Moodle)

Chemi, T., & Firing, K. (2024). Learning in a Writing Laboratory. Palgrave

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Bio:

Tatiana Chemi, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, Chair of Educational Innovation, Department of Culture and Learning, where she works in the field of artistic/aesthetic learning and creative processes. She started her career as scholar investigating theatre, comedy and Absurdism (In the Beginning Was the Pun: Comedy and Humour in Samuel Beckett’s Theatre, 2013). From there she moved into post-dramatic, physical theatre and the intersection between theatre and education, looking at creative partnerships in schools (The Art of Arts Integration, 2014), artistic creativity (with Borup and Hersted, Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity, 2015) and at artist-led learning in higher education (with Neilson, The Pedagogy of the Moment: Building Artistic Time-Spaces for critical-creative learning, 2022). More recently, she has been looking at theatre laboratories as material and affective places of/for education (A Theatre Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy and Creativity: Odin Teatret and Group Learning, 2018), study that led to the interest in the pedagogy of love and care (with Brattico, E., Fjorback, L. O., & Harmat, L. (Eds.) Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing, 2022). In 2013, Aalborg University Press named her Author of the Year and in 2021 she was nominated Teacher of the Year. In 2018-2021 she has led as Principal Investigator the Erasmus+ funded research project, ALL - Artist Led Learning in Higher Education. She is currently involved in a research project exploring theatre laboratories in nursing education (Holistic Learning of Lived and Imagined Experiences – HoLLIE Lab) and arts-based education and educational research with focus on affectivity (love, care, care aesthetics) and critical theories (freedom, hope). She is visiting Professor at Universitá Cattolica, Milano and UniStraSi, Siena, Italy and Visiting Fellow at NTNU, Norway.

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