The Society of British Theatre Designers

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The Blue Pages is The Society’s quarterly magazine, it helps us keeps in touch with members regularly and covers news, articles, guidance notes and advice on contracts and working practice, as well as details of events, exhibitions and recent publications.

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Blue Pages Editorial: February 2010

In this issue our contributors demonstrate the transformative power of scenography the revelatory qualities of light, colour and design to transform bodies, spaces and political agendas. Both Keith Khan and Hansjorg Schmidt share a desire ‘to make action, the process of doing things – the core of the scenography.’
When describing their design processes they both speak of the importance of time and transitions; ‘chains of routines and observations’ and ‘visual punctuation.’

As we define the criteria for both the design and content of the National Exhibition, we need to consider how we can represent this immaterial evidence as well as the physical artefacts. David Neat’s reflections on the working of the visual imagination suggest that it is a complex process that manifests itself in a number of startling and challenging ways.

We wish to extend the remit of the National Exhibition to include work that may lie outside the conventional methodologies of ‘theatre design’. It is also the ambition of the SBTD exhibition committee that design for performance will be embedded within the form and space of the exhibition itself with the design process as an integral part of the structure of an exhibition.

Greer Crawley

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