How can creative participatory democracy help communities and policymakers co-create better health, housing, and climate policy, for a more equitable and sustainable future for all?
Take part in an interactive introduction to the Legislative Theatre methodology, for practitioners, activists, and policymakers, and anyone seeking new ways to inject accessibility, creativity and joyfulness into decision-making and systems change. The hands-on workshop will be followed by an open dialogue between Legislative Theatre practitioners and LSE global health researchers, sharing outcomes from recent projects and investigating how Legislative Theatre could help communities collectively imagine and build a better, healthier future in the face of the climate crisis.
This event is part of the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future running from Monday 16 to Saturday 21 June 2025, with a series of events exploring the threats and opportunities of the near and distant future, and what a better world could look like.
The event is co-hosted by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, the Global Health Initiative, and the LSE Department of Health Policy.
Registration: This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. For any queries contact events@lse.ac.uk.
Speaker
Katy Rubin
Katy Rubin is an Atlantic Fellow and a practitioner and designer of Legislative Theatre, an innovative, inclusive, and joyful participatory democracy methodology that directly challenges injustices in governments and institutions, bringing residents, policymakers, and advocates together into creative dialogue and offering a rigorous testing space for equitable, human-centred policy and practice.
Speaker
Samra Said
Samra works with diverse stakeholders to co-create and bring positive change to people, projects and policy in homelessness through arts and creativity. Samra co-ordinated and co-designed several local government-based legislative theatre projects since 2020 to enable policy makers to democratise decision-making with people who are or have been homeless.
Speaker
Dr Shabna Begum
Dr Shabna Begum is CEO of the Runnymede Trust. She joined the Runnymede Trust in 2021 as a Senior Researcher and worked her way up to become Director of Research before taking on the Interim CEO position. Her work has been at the heart of all the Runnymede Trust’s recent projects, including our research on police in schools, the cost-of-living crisis, the experiences of women of colour in the workplace, and racism in migration debates.
Chair
Dr Miqdad Asaria
Miqdad is a health economist with extensive experience in both academic and policy making settings. His research interests include health inequalities and the health impacts of climate change with a particular focus on the health systems in India and the UK. Miqdad also teaches graduate students on the interactions between socioeconomic inequalities, health and climate change making use of legislative theatre in his teaching.
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