Diana Vallverdu

Diana joined the team of Creative Computing and Creative Technology and Robotics as a lecturer in 2023. Since then, she has developed her research around the themes of experiential phenomenology and Human Robotics Interaction (HRI). She reinterprets current technologies to create interactive physical performance.

I graduated in Mathematics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2018) and hold an MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2021). These studies provided me a blend of experiences that have shaped the work I’ve been involved in throughout my career.

I co-founded and co-direct the theatre company ANTS Theatre, since 2020, which originated as part of my MFA. With ANTS Theatre I devised and performed in the plays Qrumpet (2020 – 2022) and We Still Fax (2020 – 2021). I have also been a part of the devising team of the mathematical piece Axiom of Choice by Marcus du Sautoy (2022).

As part of my freelance work, I created software for the plays The Tight Squeeze (2022) and Terraforming Mars (2023) by Ludens Theatre, an immersive theatre company that uses technology to enhance audience interaction.

Practice

Forthcoming

• A Conversation with Berna – A new iteration of the piece to be exhibited at the Norwich Science Festival 2026.
• Exploring connection through creating a device that interprets fingerprints as a song – collaboration with Johann Smith from Akademia university in South Africa.

2025

• Attended International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED) 2025
• Vallverdu, Diana 2025 A Conversation with Berna. Body, Space & Technology, 24(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.18334

2024

• Writer and developer of of A Banal Introduction of Berna – Berna, the Fax Machine, reflects with the audience about the immediacy of data by offering an alternative to social media. It was performed at the DRHA 2024 Conference in Munich. Available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QUMDMaS0f3R9WSDrKNBpBSMyVoqRPFIC/view

2023

• Development of an interface for the game-based immersive theatre play Terraforming Mars by Ludens Theatre.

2022

• Development of a stock market simulator for the immersive theatre play The Tight Squeeze by Ludens Theatre.
• Actor in Axiom of Choice – A devised theatre piece that investigates mathematician Andre Weil’s life through his mathematics, written and directed by Marcus du Sautoy.

2021

• Writer and Director of 3+D – A devised theatre play developed with Ants Theatre which explores Group Theory as a catalyst for performance.

2020

• Co-creator of We Still Fax – Interactive experience developed with Ants Theatre – https://www.antstheatre.com/westillfax
• Co-creator of Qrumpet – A devised theatre play developed with Ants Theatre which explores pseudoscientific quantum tunnelling – https://www.antstheatre.com/qrumpet