Playful Café – creating new connections through play

An ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022 event What's on offer?

At Maketank, Paris Street, Exeter we will offer music, food - expect Dutch pancakes!!! - games and a range of immersive and fun activities that support building intergenerational and intercultural bridges. We will challenge you in an engaging and informal environment to use play for the creation of new connections while simultaneously develop creativity, compassion, and wellbeing.

This FREE and open to all Social Science event is created by the University of Exeter Playful Lab and Maketank a cultural lab for social change.

What is it about?

The Covid pandemic revealed many short falls and brought a multitude of things that were taken for granted to the foreground. In order to achieve positive change in a post-covid world there seems to be ample space to create new connections around the new expectations that have arisen. New connections, which can be…