SCPA holds World Stage Design 2022

World Stage Design (WSD) is the first and only designer-based exhibition to showcase and celebrate performance design from individual designers. The fifth WSD exhibition will be welcoming several hundred artists, designers, technicians, and architects from around the world who practice, study and create performing arts events. There will be performances, exhibitions, and speakers sharing and celebrating Stage Design for 11 days.

WSD is comprised of four distinct components: International Design Exhibition and Competition, Scenofest, Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC), and Technical Invention Prize (TIP). The WSD international design exhibition is a competitive, international, juried event with prizes given to first, second, and third place winners in a variety of disciplines within emerging and professional categories. In addition to the four components of WSD, the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology annual trade show and conference, Rendez-vous, will be on the UCalgary campus.

Invited Guests:

• 158 designers from 35 countries exhibiting work in carbon and VR formats
• 20 international emerging architects
• Indigenous artists
• 9 technical theatre practitioners sharing their inventions
• International jury members who are leaders in their respective fields of performance design, theatre architecture, and technical theatre

Delegates:

• Professionals in performance design and theatre architecture
• Leaders in technical theatre and production management
• Hundreds of professionals and emerging professionals who specialize in design and creation of imagined spaces, worlds and characters
• Creatives who work across disciplines – in environment and arts, technology and performance

Themes of WSD:

• Indigenous Ways of Knowing
  • connection to land and storytelling, working in traditional methods in the contemporary world
• Ecoscenography
  • ecology, economy, and community building through experience
• Multiple Realities
  • VR, MR, XR, and relationships to carbon reality, historical context, and cultural context

World Stage Design: A Backstage View
Exhibition Medium: An Exploration of Exhibition Creation at World Stage Design
Exploring the Digital Space: World Stage Design’s Virtual Reality