Joe Stansfield

Director

Joe leads our global design services at Charcoalblue Experience.

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As a Director at Charcoalblue Experience, Joe sets the vision for our global Experience Design and Design Strategy services. Joe has brought his expertise and innovation to delivering some of our largest experiential design projects to date in the events, work-place and performance space. Joe also heads up our Digital Studio team, developing our digital design toolkit from bespoke VR and visualization services to interactive web-based tools.

With over 10 years’ experience as a designer, team leader and Director at Charcoalblue, Joe’s specialist knowledge in technical design has been built from the ground up - consulting on large scale theatre & performing arts projects, as well as beyond traditional theatre spaces, with design expertise integrating digital technologies into event spaces such as projection systems, broadcast cameras and large-scale LED displays and web based digital design projects. Uniquely positioned with his multidisciplinary design experience, Joe’s focus is to continue building and honing our experiential, design strategy and digital design services, for world-class spaces.

Joe and some of the Bristol team, Summer 2017.

What's the greatest lesson you've learnt as a Theatre Consultant?

The key to unlocking the most exciting and effective design solutions is harnessing the experience of the whole team. Just like a production, collaboration and team work is the key ingredient!

What first sparked your love of theatre or performing arts?

Feeling the buzz of a live performance never gets old!

What qualities should a 'great performance space' have?

A great space should widen your eyes and ears from the door to your seat. Behind the stage, a great space is like a toolkit that always gives you the bit you need!

You graduated from the Tonmeister course at Institute of Sound Recording alongside Simon and Dan, what is it about this course that produces such great theatre consultants?

The course is built around a core of academia and technical research but combines that with hands on experience in fantastic facilities. It’s all well and good having all the technical know-how, but twice as good doing it for real under pressure!