Team
Malcolm Hamilton
Anna Haydock Wilson
Jenny Male
Josephine Gyasi
Nia Evans
Associates & Collaborators
Kerry Russell
Designer
in bristol studios
Kerry is Director of In Bristol Studios, and Chair of Phoenix 52 & Studio Meraki.
She is passionate about delivering artistic experiences that support communities to find the ‘spark’ that gets them engaged, creatively producing events, parades and site specific installations that always have local stakeholders at the heart.
Dr Lynn Love
Digital Game Designer
Abertay university
Lynn Love is a designer and lecturer in Computer Arts at Abertay University.
When not teaching, Lynn researches social play and as a member of Abertay Game Lab creates interactive games and installations that aim to bring people together through play.
She almost always has chalk in her pocket, just in case, and is a little obsessed with projectors.
M Blaydes
Freelance Producer and Facilitator
M is a freelance producer and facilitator based in Bristol.
She has worked with Play:Disrupt across a range of different projects including Harbour Hopes, Bristol High Streets’ regeneration and Castle Park’s redevelopment. In 2025 she led the production of a series of events with young people and schools about active travel, commissioned by Bristol City Council.
M brings insightful observations and the ability to connect with a diverse range of people having grown up speaking multiple languages and immersed in different cultures.
Her background spans logistical management of international trade finance conferences and black tie awards dinners in London, producing theatre tours in the South West and managing outreach and community engagement in Bristol for charities and CICs.
She served on the Board of Trustees for Many Minds for five years, and has since transitioned into the world of tech learning machine learning programming with an emphasis on AI Ethics.
Thomas Sale
Urban Designer
Tom’s dedicated to working collaboratively with people to improve their built environment, with an ability to build strong relationships with communities, stakeholders and uphold inclusive principles. His projects span both UK based public play spaces and street space designs to international placemaking projects in Yangon, Myanmar. The Myanmar based Alley Garden projects he delivered whilst working at the participatory practice Doh Eain was selected as a featured project in the City At Eye Level Asia book by STIPO in 2019.
His multi-disciplinary approach aligns with the fields of participatory design, inclusive placemaking and livability. With a particular interest in the neighbourhood scale, active travel and community-led processes. He believes that engaging and co-designing with the public can be playful, fun, inclusive and meaningful.
Amy Rose
Artist
Co-Founder Playing out
Amy is a socially engaged artist with specialisms in play, participation and performance. Her work draws on a toolkit from popular theatre forms (clown, improvisation, puppetry, street theatre, storytelling etc) alongside research, collaboration and facilitation skills to co-create innovative, social and civic solutions.
She is co-founder of Playing Out, a national support organisation and movement to restore playable streets and neighbourhoods.
Eddie Nuttall
Specialist Children’s Services and Advocacy
Eddie has 30 years of experience across the children’s workforce; as a practitioner, trainer, national policy advisor and consultant. Eddie spent nearly a decade as coordinator of Felix Road – one the busiest and best loved children’s spaces in the UK.
Central to Eddie’s practice is the development of strong relationships and deep trust with children and families. He believes passionately that all children should be both ‘seen and heard’ in their community, and that adult practitioners have a pivotal role in overcoming the barriers children face to this, particularly those from so-called disadvantaged communities.
