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Stadium pop and giant robots: graphic analysis of the stage design of Take That's Progress Live

Publicated to:Ardin : Arte, Diseño E Ingeniería. (14): 181-206 - 2025-01-01 (14), DOI: 10.20868/ardin.2025.14.5430

Authors: Martinez, Daniel Diez; Gonzalez, Lucia Perez

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Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Compos Arquitecton, ETSAM, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

In 2011 Take That broke attendance and box office records with their Progress Live tour. The stage design was the work of Es Devlin, who designed a main stage dominated by a 30- meter-high half-human body sculpture known as "Big Man" and a 21-meter-high mechanical robot that would stand up and open its arms, which she called "Other Man". Despite the popularity of the tour, there are no publicly available plans or technical documentation of the scenography used. This article vindicates the consideration of scenographies as an architectural type in itself, and its main objective and fundamental contribution consists of a complete graphic reconstitution of Devlin's project, unpublished and self-made material, which is used as support for a series of analytical diagrams related to its operation in the service of a stadium concert.

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ConcertEphemeral architectureEs devlinGraphic reconstitutioScenography

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Ardin : Arte, Diseño E Ingeniería due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Dialnet (Dialnet Métricas). In the year of publication of the work, 2025, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil).

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-14:

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Additionally, the work has been submitted to a journal classified as Diamond in relation to this type of editorial policy.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/88539/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 30
  • Downloads: 11

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Martinez, Daniel Diez) and Last Author (Gonzalez, Lucia Perez).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Martinez, Daniel Diez.