Rehearsing Robot-integrated Care Practices

This workshop explores how a performative lens can help roboticists, healthcare professionals, designers, and other academics and practitioners better understand the complexities of integrating robotics into care practices. A performative perspective approaches technology as inherently relational and frames robot capacities as expressions manifested through their appearance, motion, and behaviour within specific contexts of use, rather than as isolated technical entities. Additionally, the workshop examines how the use of a performative lens helps foster transdisciplinary methods for envisioning future robotic applications, drawing on theatre as a method of inquiry.