{"id":79478,"date":"2021-05-25T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?p=79478"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:52:41","slug":"how-puppeteers-use-performance-to-communicate-research","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/news\/articles\/2021\/how-puppeteers-use-performance-to-communicate-research\/","title":{"rendered":"How Puppeteers Use Performance to Communicate Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BU undergrads partnered with researchers to communicate abstract findings through expressive performance<\/h3>\n

This article was first published in <\/span><\/em>The Brink <\/span>on May 21, 2021. Video by Jason Kimball. <\/em><\/p>\n

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How do you communicate abstract research concepts in four minutes or less to an audience without any scientific training? If you ask Felice Amato<\/a>, a Boston University College of Fine Arts assistant professor of art education and creator of the class, Thinking Through Puppets, it\u2019s all about \u201ccrafting metaphor.\u201d In her class, undergraduates teamed up with master\u2019s and PhD students from across BU to convey the graduate students\u2019 research through puppetry performance, culminating in an end-of-semester \u201cpuppet slam\u201d showcase, which was held on April, 23.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the semester, the puppetry students met five BU graduate researchers and learned about their dissertation work, on topics including civil forfeiture, anthropomorphism in 20th-century literature, protein folding and its relation to disease, American Sign Language learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing babies, and reentry employment counseling for formerly incarcerated people.<\/p>\n