Starting with facilitated sessions from Nick Murray and Abi Palmer, we will use playful participation to examine the systems we set for ourselves in order to move towards a more collective future.

In the afternoon we will follow the game design ‘jam’ format, collaborating on a collective/collected manifesto. Inspired by Emilie Reed’s Manifesto Jam, this is a moment to collaboratively tinker with our vision for a more caring community. It will be a space to share small ideas – practical and fantastical – about how we want to live and how we can leave the world better than we found it—a manifesto for being a good ancestor.

This collective manifesto may be arrived at through multiple forms. It could be a written text, a game, a walk, a voicenote, a rest. Most importantly, this is not a jam to create a finished work, a complete performance or a polished game. This is time to throw all of our ideas and our desires into the bag, shake it up and share it around.