This session is part of the Creativeworks London Festival. A full list of CWL Festival sessions can be found here.

Com-media: Role Playing for Idea's Solutions
Com-media by Alda Terracciano and Mariza Dima, copyright 2016

12:00 and 15.30 - Friday 29th April 2016
Great Hall (for briefing session 11:45 and 15:15) - Ground Floor, King's College London

Please note that the game will be played online at 12noon. Instructions for this game will be provided in the Great Hall during a short briefing session at 11.45am. A different scenario will be played online at 3.30pm. Instructions for this game will be provided in the foyer during a short briefing session at 3.15pm.

Com-media is an interactive tool that uses play and a performative mechanism in order to provide solutions/ideas to a suggested real world challenge. It involves an exchange of knowledge, skills and information across a number of participants in relation to: Business and Social Enterprise; Social Cause and Public Sector.

The tool is inspired by the Commedia dell’Arte, a colourful theatrical art form based on the interaction of traditional stock characters in improvised scenarios that facilitate a comic plot to arrive at a humorous climax.

The model will be used at the Festival to help to:

• solve a technical problem
• develop a new business model and idea
• overcome an obstacle for growth
• envisage future market directions
• develop a strategy for change
• develop democratic tools of participation
• reflect on success(es) and failure(s)
• develop and diversifying audiences/communities of interest to identify needs and produce responses

If you would like to address one of the above issues please get in touch with Alda alda.terracciano@qmul.ac.uk or Mariza m.dima@qmul.ac.uk and you will be guided on how to produce your own scenario and take on the role of dramaturg/director in the game. If you would like to play any of the ten characters included in this interactive game and support the dramaturg in addressing his/her challenge, please register your interest via this Eventbrite page.

Please note that the game will be played online at 12noon. Instructions for this game will be provided in the foyer during a short briefing session at 11.45am. A different scenario will be played online at 3.30pm. Instructions for this game will be provided in the Great Hall during a short briefing session at 3.15pm.

A final presentation of the game outcomes produced during the day will take place during the drinks reception in the evening.