Performance Design

& Interactive Installations

Sarah Burrell is a multidisciplinary designer whose projects use performative and experiential practices to mediate exchanges between citizens and everyday urban environments in order to enact minor forms of place transformation. In her work, she investigates how an expanded sense of dialogue can lead to the production of temporary publics and amplify socio-spatial narratives. She frequently uses sound and technology and projects have taken the form of interactive installations, co-design workshops, urban interventions, and audio walks.

Her work has been presented at Art in Odd Places and La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York, The Performance Arcade and the Creative NZ 21st Century Interactive Art Conference in New Zealand, The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in the Czech Republic, Art Prospekt in St. Petersburg, and MPavilion in Australia. Recently she has self She frequently collaborates on playful urban interventions with Wellington-based sound designer Andrew Simpson under the name LudiCity.

Sarah is currently completing her PhD, titled Participatory Dialogues with(in) Public Space, through RMIT's School of Architecture and Urban Design. She also lectures in Spatial Design, Architecture, and Temporary Practices at AUT.