and for the theatre community 4 November 2016 1

SUBTITLE CAN GO HERE What is it? We’ll start out by given you three example use cases for this project— Imagine: -you are traveling to a new city and you want to immediately know all of the theatre shows that are happening that night. -you are producing a play about native americans and your hoping to find a set designer who’s native american because you don’t know any. -you are deaf playwright and you want to know all of the companies that make deaf theater so that you can potentially make theatre with them. 2

What is it? The World Theatre Map is a user-generated directory of the global theatre community and a real-time hub of events, performances, conversations. Fundamentally, it’s the product here is a directory of people, organizations, and shows User-generated is the key word here, and is the most important distinguishing strategy for producing this directory. Who is the theatre community in this directory, who can have a profile? It’s people, artists, administrators, technicians, managers. It’s institutions, organizations, companies, festivals. We’re defining it as everyone involved in some way with making theatre and making theatre happen. The second aspect of this product, a “Real-time hub” is that this in a sense is the mission control center of what’s happening today in theatre world in terms of productions and development events and what’s happening now in terms of HowlRound user-generated Journal articles and user-generated HowlRound TV livestreaming events. Go to mock up homepage. 3

Why? 4

Why? To make the field visible to itself. To connect isolated theatre communities to share knowledge. To further practice and participation in theatre—both locally and globally. We conducted a survey a few months ago and the overwhelming theme and need that emerged was the need to connect to other theater makers in various ways and for various purposes. National service organizations help fulfill that need by publishing knowledge resources and organizing in-person conference of networking, but its not enough, and those efforts have some limitations such as membership fees. Knowing who’s out there both in your community and outside has always been a challenge. For whatever reasons, we remain a very siloed and fractured community. Some of it has to do with real or imagined borders between countries, the way that funding tends to carve out communities. For example, many of the issues and concerns that United States has, Canada has as well: around gender equity, representation of Latina/os, First nations, indigenous Making a global platform like this actually may have a big impact on just knowing and getting and collaborating with people in your own backyard. 5

Who? 6

Who? It’s for everyone. All types of theatre-makers, theatre companies, and theatre institutions around the world. 7

Design 8

Tech Meteor is an open source platform for building web and mobile apps in JavaScript. 9

Open Data Model We will publish Application Program Interfaces (open APIs) of the World Theatre Map data. Making the data open and usable is a call for collaboration, research, and analysis within our field. “Rest” api Mobile Apps Arts Councils wanting pull data and contribute. Compliment HowlRound Journalism; visulations to go along with written content. The New Play Map’s database will be migrated into the World Theatre Map. 3,000 People 3,400 Organizations, Companies 4,600 Shows 7,600 Productions or Development Events 10

Timeline

Timeline January-September 2016: Design & Build October 2016: Public Test of Version 1. October 2016-January 2017: Evaluation & Updates to Version 1. January 2017: Version 1 Complete. Iterative process based on continuous community feedback and input. 12

Mock-ups 13

Mock-ups 14