Acuna Guzman, Juan Manuel, Abdelnour-Nocera, Jose ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-7368, Parra-Agudelo, Leonardo and Barriga-Isaza, Paula (2023) From Staging to Social Protagonism: Digital Transformation Within the Experimental Theater of Cali. In: Innovation Practices for Digital Transformation in the Global South. Springer.

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Abstract

This chapter shows the process of carrying out an innovation proposal at the Cali Experimental Theatre (TEC) in the context of isolation measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a process of “infrastructural inversion” inspired on the canonical work work of Star and Bowker, and following Simonsen and Hertzum, we revealed the deep historical connections that not only the TEC but the entire Colombian theatre movement of the 1960s had with the activists of social change such as workers’ organizations, trade unions and revolutionary movements. We present the iterative process of how this proposal was co-created with leadership of the TEC exposing infrastructural points of resistance and opportunity in the realisation of digital innovation. Our resulting proposal to the TEC reconnects the theatre group with the equivalent current actants of social change, such as independent journalism, citizen movements and non-governmental organizations, through a digital transformation, positioning it not only as a product of artistic quality but also as a social and historical research group. All this without altering the identity and dramaturgical tradition that the group has maintained intact for 65 years of existence. We conclude the paper by discussing the disciplinary paradoxes and sociotechnical limitations faced by this type of innovation requiring a digital transformation of their performing and delivery infrastructures.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Computing > Innovation and user experience > Global software
Depositing User:	Marc Forster
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2024 08:03
Last Modified:	19 Jul 2024 08:15
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/12179

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