Another Order: Procedural Poetry Funhouse
Background
The Procedural Poetry Funhouse is a Virtual Reality (VR) and desktop experience that uses play-based learning to reshape how students engage with poetry and AI. In this application, creative writing students physically engage with poetry and visually explore poetic themes through a series of immersive rooms. Each room represents a different stage of the writing process, incorporating AI-driven elements such as sentiment analysis and an interactive poetic “opponent” that students can confront and respond to as they navigate the experience.
Objective
This project has two main goals. Firstly, it seeks to redefine how people perceive the interaction between New Media and Creative Writing by combining emerging technologies with concrete poetry to create an interactive experience. Secondly, it seeks to expand upon existing pedagogy in the field of creative writing, becoming a teaching tool through which to teach procedural poetry and creativity.
