the digital platform at the heart of C&T
Prospero is the digital platform that underpins, connects, and amplifies everything C&T does. It is not an add-on to our artistic practice; it is the infrastructure that allows our applied theatre, creative learning, research, and community engagement work to scale, deepen, and endure. Designed and developed by C&T, Prospero enables participants, partners, and audiences to create, interact, reflect, and share in ways that are accessible, inclusive, and creatively empowering.
At its core, Prospero is a modular platform that supports co-creation across live, digital, and hybrid contexts. It allows us to move seamlessly between workshops, performances, classrooms, community settings, and research environments, while ensuring that participant voice, data, and creative outputs are captured ethically and meaningfully. This makes Prospero central to our work with learning-disabled people, young people, educators, artists, researchers, and civic partners.
Prospero: four systems one
.Prospero is structured around four interconnected strands, each designed for a specific but complementary purpose.
Prospero Play focuses on participation and creative engagement. It supports games, challenges, movement-based interaction, and playful tasks that invite users to take part actively rather than consume passively. Play has been used extensively in projects such as Power Up, Move for Music, and Move Well, where gamified experiences support digital confidence, physical wellbeing, and creative expression.
Prospero Learn is designed for education and skills development. It supports structured learning journeys, reflective tasks, and accessible progression routes aligned to recognised frameworks, including digital skills and creative learning outcomes. This strand underpins work with schools, colleges, and community education partners, embedding creativity into digital literacy and STEM-through-the-arts programmes.
Prospero Research enables ethical, participatory data collection and insight generation. It allows participants to contribute their experiences in accessible formats, supporting evaluation, action research, and co-authored knowledge creation. Prospero Research has been used in projects such as Wisdom of Crowds, StoryLens, and Not Without Us, helping ensure that learning-disabled people and communities are not just subjects of research but active contributors to it.
Prospero Curate brings these outputs together. It enables organisations and communities to curate digital exhibitions, archives, and shared narratives that extend the life of a project beyond delivery. This strand supports place-based work including Elgar at the Asylum, Woodrow Walks, and Tales from a City.
Together, these strands make Prospero a flexible, future-facing platform that connects creativity, inclusion, and evidence-led practice. To explore the platform in more detail, visit the Prospero website and see how it supports participatory arts, education, and research in action.
