Thomas Gegenhuber

I love theatre. In the first weeks of my exchange I joined the Ryerson Theatre Group OACT. Last week we had our show in the Student Center of the Oakham House. It was a unique experience. I played in the comedy “Lexicomical Hypothesis”, written and directed by Darcy Corbett. It seems like the crowd enjoyed our performance. Someone on facebook said it was „was retardily brilliant”.

(from right: Jamieson Child, me)

We need more theatre in schools

As mentioned I love theatre and I have to admit that I am biased. But I truly believe theatre and arts should play a huge role in our education system. Somehow most of the children lose their creativity after kindergarten. One reason for this is the inflexible school system that still tries to educate children for an industrial society. Our school system focuses on routinization to ensure that people fit into tasks demanded by a tayloristic system.

I am convinced that the education system should create chances and help to overcome social disparity. Furthermore it should enable children develop their creative potential.

I published my work for the project “Virtual Reality and Interaction” on my Flickr photostream. With this work for the course “Issue and Topics in Design” I transfer the symbols of web communication into the “real world”.