Crisis Acres: Screening & Q&A with Tom K Kemp
Venue
Cinema screening room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JUMedia
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Description
After the Single Use presents a screening of Crisis Acres (2025), followed by a remote Q&A with artist and filmmaker Tom K Kemp.
In Crisis Acres, a group of experts design and test a “megagame” — one that simulates the daily running of an imaginary NHS hospital. Using elements from boardgaming, roleplay, and the lived experience of the 35 surgeons, clinicians, nurses, administrators, politicians, and chronic patients who take part, the megagame becomes a tool for analysing and diagnosing potential problems within the world’s largest healthcare system, at multiple scales simultaneously.
This screening is presented by After the Single Use, a global research project concerned with how healthcare systems organise materials, labour, and responsibility under environmental pressure. Crisis Acres aligns with this work by using simulation and play to make complex healthcare systems visible, testable, and open to collective reflection.
The screening will be followed by a live remote Q&A with Tom K Kemp.