Category: Theory & Practice

Why take games into workplaces? Systems Gaming with David Finnigan

This week, David Finnigan writes about Systems games for consultancy: what they are, how we make them, and (most importantly), why they work. We’ve started hosting lunchtime sharings and Coney Socials for those interested in this line of work – if…

Small People, Big Protest: why bother?

A week today, Coney presents Small People, Big Protest at All Points East In The Neighbourhood. It’s a project made by Coney with families, to help small people respond to big ideas about the world. Georgina Bednar, an Associate of…

Pass It On, a legacy of play

  Tassos Stevens writes: Bernie ’Blue’ De Koven sadly passed in late March, to the great playground in the sky. I was lucky to spend time with him last summer in conversation and making A Game Of Legacy, as one…

Question Everything

[Tassos Stevens writes…] I was invited to make a provocation for Question Everything, an event curated by Index on Censorship and hosted at Junction in Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Festival Of Ideas. All us ‘provokers’, from diverse backgrounds…

a manifesto about manifestos

A manifesto expresses the vision, what’s important and what’s exciting. This is what it is about. It’s shared with everyone with a stake, and invites their contribution and co-authorship. It adopts whichever form and format best suits its co-authors. There…

Writing for adventures

I know that these words are being read by you now. You are probably looking at a computer screen. It seems unlikely that you’ve gone to the effort of printing this out. If you’re thinking about it now, please don’t.…

"an exchange of good gifts between strangers"

Tassos Stevens writes: I was invited by Annie Rigby of Unfolding Theatre and Kylie Lloyd of Northern Stage to deliver a provocation in a symposium recently on participatory art and the question – how does this work impact and benefit…

Middle Days of our better nation

Tom Bowtell, who co-created the show with fellow Coney co-director Annette Mees writes about the core questions that fuel Early Days (of a Better Nation), which premieres in London this autumn Two questions have always hovered close to the heart…

A Salon on playing theatre at Camden People's Theatre

This was an open event curated and hosted by Coney at Camden People’s Theatre for our network. It sprang from a desire to advance the dialogue around making playing theatre aka interactive theatre. Provocations from Philipp Ehmann, Zoe Svendsen, and…