TY - JOUR AU - Brown, Bryan PY - 2021/10/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Laboratories of Culture JF - Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença JA - Rev. Bras. Estud. Presença VL - 11 IS - 4 SE - Laboratórios em fluxo DO - UR - https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/114284 SP - 01-28 AB - <p><span>This article situates the theatre laboratory in the history of social innovation and attempts to show how the twenty-first century phenomenon of social labs productively offer modes of thinking that can usefully inform contemporary conceptions of the theatre laboratory. Through an examination of Maketank, a fledgling organization in Exeter, UK, the article proposes a new organisational approach called </span><em>the cultural laboratory</em><span> that combines principles of both the theatre and social lab with the aim of extending the theatre laboratory into broader realms of cultural action.</span></p> ER -