MULTI-SENSORY STORYTELLING

16:40 - 17:30 Tirsdag 17. marts 2026 / 50 min

The past 15 years have unleashed a wave of immersive projects challenging the visual dominance of 20th-century media. These works invite embodied engagement through smell, touch, and positional awareness, turning passive viewing into visceral understanding.

What is driving increasing numbers of producers to turn to these expanded senses? What new forms of knowing do they unlock and how do they reshape our relationship with documentary storytelling? Can alternative sensory approaches reflect the experience of people who are marginalised by the foregrounding of the audio-visual? And what are the challenges for producers in designing and creating for expanded senses?

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Speakers

Ali Adjorlu

Ali Adjorlu is Associate Professor at the Section of Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen. He researches multisensory and immersive technologies that support neurodivergent and marginalised communities through inclusive virtual learning experiences.

Sacha Wares

Sacha is a UK based theatre and XR (extended reality) director. Prior to founding Trial and Error Studio, she was associate of the Royal Court Theatre, the Young Vic and National Theatre's Immersive Storytelling Studio.

Sektioner

Conference

Bsquare

Tid og sted

17mar2026

Tirsdag16:40 - 17:30Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Moderators

Mandy Rose

Mandy Rose is Professor of Documentary & Digital Cultures at UWE Bristol. She is Co-Investigator of the UKRI MyWorld programme and was Co-I on Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters. During 20 years at the BBC Mandy oversaw award-winning participatory and interactive media initiatives including BBC 2’s Video Nation, the Capture Wales/Cipolwg ar Gymru digital storytelling project and the BBC’s pan-platform exploration of language, accent and dialect – Voices. Mandy is co-editor of i-docs: the evolving practices of interactive documentary (2017) . Her recent writing appears in Studies in Documentary Film, Convergence and the Intellect Handbook of Documentary.

Curator

Mark Atkin

Mark Atkin is the curator of CPH:DOX Inter:Active and Head of Studies of the CPH:LAB, CPH:DOX’s talent development programme, supporting visionaries to push the boundaries of documentary storytelling. He curates Electric Dreams, a programme dedicated to Immersive Storytelling at Adelaide Fringe Festival. He is part of Immersive Arts, the UK’s funding and development programme for immersive artists; and QUAFF, a fund supporting queer artists. He is on the steering committee for the Annwn Prize, the world’s first prize for excellence in Immersive Storytelling. His award-winning immersive and interactive productions have been exhibited at major arts institutions around the world.