Kerry is Director of In Bristol Studios, and Chair of Phoenix 52 & Studio Meraki.
She is passionate about delivering artistic experiences that support communities to find the ‘spark’ that gets them engaged, creatively producing events, parades and site specific installations that always have local stakeholders at the heart.
Liz Beth works as an independent Consultant and is a chartered Town Planner and accredited NPIERS Examiner. Recent work has focused on Neighbourhood Planning with Parish Councils and Forums, and Community Engagement. She has worked in the public and voluntary sectors during her career.
Besides development management and policy experience, she has project-managed regeneration and environmental improvement schemes, cycle route development for Sustrans and public art projects.
Lynn Love is a designer and lecturer in Computer Arts at Abertay University.
When not teaching, Lynn researches social play and as a member of Abertay Game Lab creates interactive games and installations that aim to bring people together through play.
She almost always has chalk in her pocket, just in case, and is a little obsessed with projectors.
Katie designs and facilitates workshops with people of all ages and backgrounds across the UK for 10 years, specialising in theatre, imaginative play and group cohesion
She has worked with companies such as; The Bristol Old Vic, Travelling Light Theatre Company and the Creative Youth Network, amongst many more. She is Co-creative Director of the Adventure Bureau and brings a a wealth of knowledge in designing and delivering sessions to help spark imagination, promote group cohesion and nurture their personal journey.
Jonny is a Cardiff-based artist and leader for Wales’ deaf community. He’s passionate about creating opportunities for deaf artists and socially disadvantaged local communities. A qualified graphic designer and high-school teacher, Jonny shifted his professional career to performing and arts-inclusion consultancy. Jonny’s recent career highlight is performing ‘Louder Isn’t Always Clearer’, a critically-acclaimed inspirational story of his own deaf experience.
Helping construction businesses understand the social challenges they have the solutions for.
Working with grassroots and community organisations to understand how they can maximise the Social Value offering from the private sector.
Passionate about people and the communities we live in, I work to help businesses find their strategic vision for their purpose beyond profit. Acting as a guide, interpreter, connector & storyteller we explore how having a social innovation approach ensures place-led, citizen-led social value and delivers positive, systemic impact on diverse groups in society.
Besides development management and policy experience, she has project-managed regeneration and environmental improvement schemes, cycle route development for Sustrans and public art projects.
Tom’s dedicated to working collaboratively with people to improve their built environment, with an ability to build strong relationships with communities, stakeholders and uphold inclusive principles. His projects span both UK based public play spaces and street space designs to international placemaking projects in Yangon, Myanmar. The Myanmar based Alley Garden projects he delivered whilst working at the participatory practice Doh Eain was selected as a featured project in the City At Eye Level Asia book by STIPO in 2019.
His multi-disciplinary approach aligns with the fields of participatory design, inclusive placemaking and livability. With a particular interest in the neighbourhood scale, active travel and community-led processes. He believes that engaging and co-designing with the public can be playful, fun, inclusive and meaningful.
Amy is a socially engaged artist with specialisms in play, participation and performance. Her work draws on a toolkit from popular theatre forms (clown, improvisation, puppetry, street theatre, storytelling etc) alongside research, collaboration and facilitation skills to co-create innovative, social and civic solutions.
She is co-founder of Playing Out, a national support organisation and movement to restore playable streets and neighbourhoods.
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