Are We COPing?

‘Are we COPing?’ was a digital workshop generously supported by Creative Carbon Scotland that took place in September 2020. Created by Matteo Menapace, a game designer formerly in residence at the V&A, it provided a structured format for creative practitioners, researchers and policymakers to discuss urgent challenges ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) that took place in Glasgow in November 2021.

Set up as a role-playing game, this workshop enabled participants to step out of their daily roles and imagine solutions to shared problems. After all, play, as once noted by cultural historian Huizinga, is older than culture.

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