Janet Vaughan is a Designer & the Co-Artistic Director of Talking Birds, a Coventry-based company with a reputation for making gently provocative projects which explore, & seek to illuminate, the profound & complex relationships between people & place.
Janet has designed site specific & touring performances for unusual spaces, devised theatre & new writing. Her freelance work includes work with Theatre Absolute, Belgrade Theatre & a pop-up shop kit for the ground-breaking Inspired/Retail Trust Retail Ready People project in 2013.
Her designs were chosen to represent UK scenography at the Prague Quadrennial World Scenography Exhibitions in 1999 & 2015, & she is part of Julie’s Bicycle’s first cohort of Creative Climate Leaders.
This conversation was recorded in May 2022. It's pretty much unedited & contains language, opinions or views that soley reflect those of the speaker.
My next guest in this series of storytelling interviews is Professor Ann Light a design research & interaction theorist writing about participatory design, collaborative future-making & transformations to sustainable futures through changing cultures.