17th November, 2pm – Utrecht University, NL How do we push the boundaries on playful futuring? I (Ann Light) will be introducing the new edited book Playful Encounters, Recovering Futures, which brings together performance, theatre, games, sociodrama, participatory design, socially-engaged art, live action role-play, eco-social commitments and more-than-human philosophies. The book examines common processes by […]
Harry Lewis and I have just published our collection on immersive participatory practices for eco-social transformation. It’s an easy read in 15 chapters including theatre, festival and games makers and researchers into performance, design, live action roleplay and more.
Congratulations to Roel Roscam-Abbing, who completed his thesis – Configuring the Fediverse: Online Federation, Alternative Social Media and Participatory Design – and defended it at Malmö University this week. The whole thesis is available for download at: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2094768/FULLTEXT01.pdf It was my pleasure to be his supervisor, to support his work, to be taken back to […]
The report encapsulates my last three years of research into city-coastal relations
If, as designers, want to create desirable futures, one way is to prefigure desired ways of relating (to ourselves, the world and others who dwell in it), giving people something to aspire to in the changes to come. Affective prefiguration can make visible eco-social transformation as it happens. This prefiguration is an experience of relations […]
Introducing tools that evaluate transformative creative practices on the creator’s own terms, yet with rigour. Connect to materials prepared for artists, funders, researchers and policy-makers with the desire to make radical shifts in meaning and cultures towards eco-social futures: CreaTures Framework – how to evaluate creative experiential work for transformative ends, while challenging evaluation practices: […]
Join this series of art and design activities led by some of Britain’s most inspiring creators. Delving into the futures we might wish for (or hope to avoid), the sessions explore how the experience of imaginative engagement might help society address global challenges, such as climate care. Each session offers the chance to follow alternative […]
This year has been exciting for a number of planet-centred things I have been a part of doing. All of them have had a focus on positive transformative action. In a global context that is frightening, working with others, focusing on the local and doing beautiful things together is some kind of heartening response. In […]
What’s wrong with changing the world one neighbourhood at a time; hands in the soil but looking at the stars?
Eco-social justice requires a redistribution of resources and capabilities. Develop relational assets and it is possible to create surplus care as well as fairer societies.