Category: Theory & Practice

Round the Table: The Story of Adventure One

The first in a blog series by Tassos Stevens, aka The Coney Doctor, around the theme: Better Conversations Across Difference.

Creative Climate Coalitions: Playful Activism at UCL

Associate Director Toby Peach writes on his time spent exploring Playful Activism with staff and students at University College London.

On trust: what’s at play?

Director Tassos Stevens shares some of the research and practice that emerged from a recent commission, and how this led to a path to better understand the factors in play in building or eroding trust.

Playful Activism, game mechanics and participation

Arts education researchers and friends of Coney Elvira Crois and Free De Backer write on Coney’s practice of social change through play.

Bridging Youth Work and The Arts

Reflecting on three days in Belgium, full of practice exchange between artists making participatory work for, by, and with young people from Belgium, France, Denmark and the UK.

Meeting Makers: sharing, connecting, upskilling

Crowdplay in Plovdiv: Tassos writes

Towards the end of 2019 we were invited to share a Coney project called Crowdplay at Fusion Urban Games Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

A workshop with Áron Birtalan – Eliza writes

Our Producer Eliza shares some learning from a workshop about transformational practice, led by internationally renowned Artist and Transformation Games Practitioner, Áron Birtalan.

Last Night of the Pleasure Fair – an interview with Georgina

Coming up this Saturday 23 November, we’re hugely excited to present Last Night of the Pleasure Fair – an evening of entertainment, interactivity and games around the theme of London’s counter culture. Last Night of the Pleasure Fair draws inspiration from the Bartholomew Fair – a trading…