Pavlos Panagiotidis
performance-maker and mixed reality researcher
Research
Selected research projects, publications and practice-based work exploring responsive spaces, collaborative performance-making, robotics and human-centred creative processes.
A rehearsal-based workflow for designing expressive robotic behaviours through theatrical direction, puppeteering and embodied improvisation. Presented at the 2025 International Conference on Social Robotics in Naples, the paper received the Best Student Paper Award.
A systems paper exploring interactive architecture as a performing partner. The project examines how explainable AI, spatial sensing and rehearsal methods can support artists in designing responsive environments that respond to speech and movement in real time.
A technical demonstration paper on making sensing and actuation authorable inside the rehearsal room. The project examines how theatre-makers can configure, test and revise responsive light-and-sound environments through embodied trial and error, without specification-first workflows or constant technical support.
A design case study on co-designing a mixed-reality artwork with families. The project examines how applied theatre methods can redistribute authority between children and adults, and how the participatory dynamics rehearsed in a workshop can be carried into a public installation rather than left behind in it.
