"Within the Open Culture intervention we invite audiences to create their vision of the future of Guimarães. Give Me Back My Broken Night is a mobile performance work using pervasive technology, which asks audiences to collaboratively imagine the future of their city. Site-specific science fictions are told using a combination of location sensitivemobile devices, portable projectors and actors, to create a magical, relevant and cinematic experience for participants.
Unlike conventional guided tours or historic walks, this is a guided tour of the future of Guimarães. Audiences are given a mobile device and a blank folded paper map, a micro projector is hung around their neck. In the streets, an actor guides them through a landscape of utopian or dystopian possibilites. They ask the participants about what they would like to see there. As the audience describe their own visions of the future, these imagined buildings begin to appear on the map in their hand as a series of glowing lines."
A Watershed's project in partnership with The British Council.
