If you'd like to learn more about the ACT Play Symposium, please email Cathy Hope on cathy.hope@canberra.edu.au.
12 - 14 July, 2023
Maria Reay Teaching Centre, Kambri ANU
Canberra is a place of immense possibility, with a creative community passionate about the future. It has a reputation as the ‘serious’ heart of government, but in fact, Canberrans love to play. In this fourth Play Symposium, we explored the power of play to engage with our worlds in new ways and to transform places and communities.
The University of Canberra’s Associate Professor Cathy Hope brought together an exciting mix of urban designers, place-makers, artists, thinkers and community leaders – including globally-acclaimed NZ placemaking team Gap Filler – to playfully disrupt thinking and practice.
The Symposium also explored compelling creative tools – across the real and digital worlds – to contribute to Canberra’s city’s vibrancy and wellbeing as we participate in the capital’s ‘laboratory of the possible’.
