The Sensory Culture Workshops at Kuncz event marks a key milestone in the Aletheia Aisthesis: Sensory Culture project, bringing together the children and young people who participated in the workshops held throughout July in three Day Care Centres operated by the Timișoara Social Assistance Department. Organised as part of the celebrations dedicated to Timișoara City Day, the event celebrates the participants' achievements while introducing them to the artistic and social dimension of the project's next stage.
During the previous workshops, participants explored digital creativity through 3D modelling and printing, learning how to transform virtual designs into physical objects inspired by the cultural heritage of present-day Romania. They also experimented with clay modelling, creating handmade objects that were later digitised through 3D scanning and reproduced using 3D printing technology. These tactile objects will become part of a collection specifically created for future sensory theatre performances designed for blind and visually impaired children.
The event on 3 August showcases the outcomes of this collaborative process through a temporary exhibition presenting the objects created across all three participating centres. More than an exhibition, however, it is conceived as an interactive cultural gathering where participants can exchange experiences, discover each other's work and better understand how digital technologies can contribute to making cultural heritage more accessible and inclusive.
A central element of the programme is a Sensory Theatre Workshop led by Ana Ursu. Through improvisation, guided sensory exercises and collaborative storytelling, participants will explore how touch, sound, movement and imagination can become powerful artistic languages. The workshop introduces the principles of sensory theatre, encouraging participants to interact with tactile objects while discovering new ways of communicating stories beyond visual perception.
The gathering also creates space for social interaction and community building among participants from the three centres. In a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, children and young people will celebrate the results of their work, share ideas and spend time together. Refreshments will be provided throughout the event, creating an informal environment that encourages dialogue, collaboration and participation.
Beyond celebrating the achievements of the summer workshops, the event serves as a bridge towards the project's final artistic phase. The participants become active contributors to the creation of a sensory theatre experience that will be presented in September, where the objects they designed and produced will form part of an immersive tactile installation for blind and visually impaired audiences. In this way, they experience first-hand how their creative work can generate meaningful cultural experiences for others.
By connecting digital fabrication, cultural heritage, artistic practice and social inclusion, Sensory Culture Workshops at Kuncz demonstrates how technology can become a tool for empathy, creativity and accessibility. The event strengthens the sense of community developed throughout the workshops while preparing participants for the next stage of the project, where their creations will continue to live as part of a unique sensory theatre experience accessible to all.
The Theater for You (TpT) Association is a cultural organization in Timișoara that uses theater as a tool for education, inclusion, and social transformation. Its mission is to expand access to artistic experiences for the broader community, as well as for communities facing social vulnerability, by promoting every person’s right to creative expression and cultural participation.
Based on the idea that art has the potential to shape individuals and build communities, TpT develops programs in applied theater, cultural intervention, and arts education, specifically dedicated to at-risk children and youth, people with disabilities, people incarcerated, and other groups excluded from mainstream society. The methodology combines tools from forum theater, narrative theater, and drama therapy techniques with validated practices in non-formal education and artistic interventions carried out in restrictive settings. TpT draws inspiration from landmark projects such as ARTA’n Viața (Rebenciuc, 2018) and research on the use of art as a means of personal development in prisons, emphasizing co-creation, active listening, and storytelling as methods for articulating identity and fostering human connection.
By facilitating workshops, artistic labs, and collaborative creative projects, TpT creates spaces for dialogue and critical reflection, where theater is not merely an aesthetic act, but an educational and relational process.
Projects: DialogIn 2021, Dramalogue de Capitală (2023), WebTheatre (2022), Teatru Jurnal (2023), and Teatru Jurnal – A New Chapter (2024), Gașca Lirică (2024), Film School (2024), (anti)glonț (2023), and EU (2024) at the National Theater’s Studio Hall, In Umbra Veritas (CdP 2025), Labirint (CdP 2025).
TpT directed and produced four anti-bullying short films with students from Ghiroda School in 2024, directed the 2021 short film The Balcony, an HIV awareness film screened in Bucharest, and produced the radio plays History You Can Touch for the Iris Special High School for the Blind (2025).
