The Theatre Workshop in Science, Technology and Society (TWISTS) is a unique public engagement project. Theoretically, TWISTS seeks to activate publics around contemporary science and technology issues by producing agonistic cultural spaces in which participants are confronted with and engaged by multiple perspectives. It thus seeks to enact a model of Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST) that is oriented toward neither individualized educational models nor policy deliberation and consensus. Its engaged STS performance model instead merges expanded notions of expertise with challenges and techniques derived from critical performance theory, such as recentering participants, rethinking purpose and evaluation, and reworking narrative structure. Practically, TWISTS’ four existing performance cycles have been sites for both extending and challenging the theory. Using a unique system of expert interviews, writing, and theater games, these performances were collaboratively derived by a range of participants. The “Living Darwin” performance serves as a case study for exploring the tensions of this collaboration. Negotiating a set of different perspectives over the place of Darwin in contemporary life, and the proper way to represent him and his influence, was challenging, but proved productive in developing a performance that raised these issues for the audience within an agonistic space.

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参与剧院，激励公众：达尔文演出的理论与实践

科学，技术与社会戏剧工作室（TWISTS）是一个独特的公众参与项目。从理论上讲，TWISTS试图通过产生激烈的文化空间来激活当代科学和技术领域的公众，参与者可以在其中面对并参与多种视角。因此，它试图制定一种既不面向个性化教育模式也不面向政策审议和共识的公共科技参与模式（PEST）。相反，其参与的STS绩效模型将专业知识的概念与来自关键绩效理论的挑战和技术相融合，例如，新近参加的参与者，对目标和评估的重新思考以及对叙述结构的重新设计。几乎，TWISTS的四个现有性能周期一直是扩展和挑战理论的场所。使用独特的专家访谈，写作和戏剧游戏系统，这些表演是由众多参与者共同开发的。“活着的达尔文”表演作为案例研究，探讨了这种合作的张力。就达尔文在当代生活中的位置进行谈判，并就代表达尔文及其影响力的正确方式进行一系列不同的讨论，虽然具有挑战性，但事实证明，这种做法在开发能在激动人心的空间中为观众提出这些问题的表演方面颇有成效。“活着的达尔文”表演作为案例研究，探讨了这种合作的张力。就达尔文在当代生活中的位置进行谈判，并就代表达尔文及其影响力的正确方式进行一系列不同的讨论，虽然具有挑战性，但事实证明，这种做法在开发能在激动人心的空间中为观众提出这些问题的表演方面颇有成效。“活着的达尔文”表演作为案例研究，探讨了这种合作的张力。就达尔文在当代生活中的位置进行谈判，并就代表达尔文及其影响力的正确方式进行一系列不同的讨论，虽然具有挑战性，但事实证明，这种做法在开发能在激动人心的空间中为观众提出这些问题的表演方面颇有成效。