Jessica Bowles

As an educator, she has introducing a number of subjects to Higher Education never before available in the UK at degree level, including puppetry and circus. Her educational and research practice seeks to promote innovative teaching and learning models for performance training, mostly celebrating the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of performance-making.

Since 2008, she has been collaborating with Prof. Bob Shiel, Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL and this has developed into new strand of collaborative research between making, performance and 3D scanning, in collaboration with SHUNT, and ScanLAB projects. Between 2010 and 2014, she was on the Board of the Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC), a University of London initiative to bring together leading and innovative researchers from London's universities together with creative industry freelancers, small businesses, and students.

In 2013 she completed an AHRC funded Creativeworks project with Battersea Arts Centre looking at 'Scratch performance as a co-creative model and it's potential for development online. Recent international work includes knowledge exchange with with colleagues at the Amsterdam Theatreschool (NL) on the role of Creative Producer and as Artistic Leader of Scenofest at the Prague Quadrennial 2011. Since 2012, she has been working with the core PQ team on SharedSpace, a three year research project to explore scenography as an interdisciplinary field and an active agent in the creation of spatial/performative/social relationships. She is delighted to return to Prague as the Artistic Leader of SpaceLab, shaping the educational component of the Prague Quadrennial 2015.