Edinburgh Napier University

  The research is represented as prototype digital epistemic artefacts to be experienced in the HoloLens headset and mobile devices. The artefacts express outcomes that were co-constructed with care experienced young people during trauma-responsive Research through Design (RtD) workshops. The collaborative workshops enacted generative design research techniques as playful ways of being and knowing at the intersections of Applied Theatre and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This syncretism elicited novel playful and somatic meaning-making modalities of experience with the participants and lens-based technologies. The next phase of the research extends the participative workshop experience to explore and enrich ways of knowing the agential and affective affordances of extended reality (XR) technologies with audiences.