Challenge: create an online interactive experience

News 13 Jan 2022

Creative Informatics: Traverse’s Challenge project

Traverse Theatre’s challenge is to create an online interactive experience that can help audiences, artists, academics, and other stakeholders visualise its global legacy, reinforcing the theatre’s unique position in Scotland’s performing arts and literary ecosystem in the run-up to Traverse’s 60th anniversary in 2023. The ambition of this challenge is to preserve, chart and interpret the historical – and ongoing – significance of Scotland’s new writing theatre, celebrating Traverse’s many achievements over the last 60 years.

Read the full brief here

This challenge is offered through Creative Informatics Challenge Projects 2022, which offers creative organisations opportunities to bring challenges to the table that require innovative, data-driven solutions. Creative Informatics is an ambitious research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together.

Learn more about the Challenge Projects here

Applications for respondents are now open until the 11th of February to work with us for the next 3-12 months towards an interactive digital resource that could be used in all areas of the Traverse’s work, from creative learning and development to marketing and audience engagement, offering a unique insight into the theatre’s history and telling the Traverse story in an innovative and exciting way.


Come along to the Q&A with us on 25th January at 10am. Register here.