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Play Design and Participation Studio, based in South East London and working worldwide.


We create participatory experiences, workshops and games, using play as a tool for learning, connection and co-creation.

Thinking more playfully, playing more thoughtfully.

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SHOWCASE

A bouncy castle installation that makes visitors lose balance and fall.

Projects

A bouncy castle to make you Fall

A bouncy castle installation that makes visitors lose balance and fall.
Creative toolkit for educators and facilitators using craft and play to explore Day of the Dead traditions.

Projects

Day of the Dead Craft Activities Toolkit

Creative toolkit for educators and facilitators using craft and play to explore Day of the Dead traditions.
A board game about inequality and power dynamics to initiate and address difficult conversations through a fictional alien society.

Projects

Seize the Power, the Board Game

A board game about inequality and power dynamics to initiate and address difficult conversations through a fictional alien society.
An interactive and co-created map that explores and celebrates Central Bedfordshire waterways.

Projects

Our Natural Blue Spaces Interactive Map

An interactive and co-created map that explores and celebrates Central Bedfordshire waterways.
Exploring and connecting with nature in the Royal Kew Gardens through a playful zine and a self-led adventure.

Projects

Green Marvel, a Playful Zine

Exploring and connecting with nature in the Royal Kew Gardens through a playful zine and a self-led adventure.
A large-scale live action role-playing game where thousands of players shape a shared world through politics, play and social dynamics.

Play studies

Empire LRP and the civics of large-scale larps

A large-scale live action role-playing game where thousands of players shape a shared world through politics, play and social dynamics.
Investigating how pretend play creates shared worlds and imaginary situations, using imagination and social dynamics to shape human interaction.

Play studies

As if: the complex mechanisms of pretend play

Investigating how pretend play creates shared worlds and imaginary situations, using imagination and social dynamics to shape human interaction.
Investigating Tetris and its role in trauma therapy and the psychology behind the classic puzzle game.

Play studies

Tetris, rewiring the mind after trauma

Investigating Tetris and its role in trauma therapy and the psychology behind the classic puzzle game.
Play, as a concept, a design tool, and an experience, is vital in understanding ourselves and the world around us.

Play studies

Played-in: an introduction to the power of play

Play, as a concept, a design tool, and an experience, is vital in understanding ourselves and the world around us.

Working with cultural organisations, schools and community groups, we design spaces where curiosity, imagination and collective exploration can thrive.

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Tools & resources

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Games, play forms, & play spaces

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Creative & exploratory sessions

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Community engagement initiatives

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Installations & participatory experiences

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Your idea!

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