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SENSORY THEATRE: THREEWAYS SEN SCHOOL PROJECT An immersive learning environment for disabled children WHO: MARTYN WARE, Illustrious Company WHAT: London Knowledge Lab Seminar Series WHEN: Tuesday, September 30th, 5pm WHERE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QS Immersive sensory environments are spaces that are embedded with cutting edge technology to promote multisensory interaction. Martyn Ware of the Illustrious Company will be discussing one of his latest projects - the Threeways SEN School project. Martyn, the founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, is one of the leading figures in electronic music. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totalling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 27 year career to date, working with Tina Turner, Terence Trent D'Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples. Martyn has been working in collaboration with Jason Bruges Studio for more than 3 years to create a world-first, totally innovative facility to enhance the learning and experiential environment for a wide range of disabilities. Using the latest in sensor technologies, their facility will enable relatively small interactions with pupils to create meaningful control for a variety of sensory outputs (200 degree immersive projection, three-dimensional sound and detailed responsive led lighting arrays). This has involved the design of bespoke software enabling the digital patching of any sensors to control any or all of the sensory components (projection, lighting and sound). The facility is now 80% functional and will be officially launched and fully functional early in the new year. Whilst they have already created a series of 'templates' for teachers to pour content into, in addition they are currently embarking on a concerted effort to invite interested parties and creatives to the school to engage in developing future ideas and experiences. ABOUT MARTYN Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique "Heightened Reality" three-dimensional sound technology and bespoke musical composition in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world who include The Science Museum, London, The Royal Ballet, and collaborations with the artists Cathy De Monchaux, Tim Head, Gary Stevens, David Bickerstaff and Philip Tsiaras (at the 2003 Venice Biennale). WEBLINKS Illustrious Company www.illustriouscompany.co.uk/ Jason Bruges Studio http://www.jasonbruges.com/