Imprint: Triarchy Press
Publication: 2023
Extent: 400pp.
Size: 18.5 x 24.5 cm
ISBN: 978-1-913743-81-9​
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Playing for Time
making art as if the world mattered

​Lucy Neal
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Now back in print...

This groundbreaking handbook (first published in 2016 and now needed more than ever in the face of multiple unfolding crises) is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to harness their creativity to make change in the world.

Playing for Time explores the pivotal role artists play in re-thinking the future; re-inventing and re-imagining our world at a time of systemic change and uncertainty. Playing for Time identifies collaborative arts practices emerging in response to planetary challenges, reclaiming a traditional role for artists in the community as truth-tellers and agents of change.

Fifty experienced artists and activists give voice to a new narrative – shifting society’s rules and values away from consumerism and commodity towards community and collaboration with imagination, humour, ingenuity, empathy and skill. Inspired by the grass-roots Transition movement, modelling change in communities worldwide, Playing for Time joins the dots between key drivers of change – in energy, finance, climate change, food and community resilience – and ‘recipes for action’ for readers to take and try.
"Playing for Time is an extraordinary compendium: an early recognition that the arts can be both world-changing and life-changing, making the argument, one splendid case study after another, that creative practice is an essential force for ecological well-being between people and across species."
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Ann Light, Co-creator of the CreaTures Framework.
Professor of Design and Creative Technology, University of Sussex, UK
and Professor, Malmö University, Sweden

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Playing for Time is a project book for visual artists, theatre makers, performers, craftspeople, playwrights, festival organisers, sustainability managers, cultivators, writers, activists and environmentalists... anyone wishing to use art and craft to connect and inspire citizens and communities  to foster social connections across conventional boundaries and achieve radical change from the ground up.  ​