2 Podcast — JIAS

The R&D phase of the Joyful Institute for Adequate Studies (JIAS) is supported by Creative Scotland's Go See Share fund, which enabled JIAS founder Anthea Moys to travel to Denmark to participate in CounterPlay 2026 — an international festival of play — and to interview nine practitioners whose conversations form this podcast series. The podcast series was produced with support from Altered Lens (Johannesburg, South Africa) and the Really Terrible Orchestra (Edinburgh), whose rehearsals open and close every episode. This website was designed by Francis Burger (Johannesburg, South Africa).

The Joyful Institute of Adequate Studies Podcast.

Episode 2. Malcolm Hamilton — Leaving the Malcolm Hamilton Show

Ep.2. Malcolm Hamilton — Leaving the Malcolm Hamilton Show

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Malcolm got seriously ill. His co-director went on maternity leave. So he let go.

He called in his seven associates and said: step in. And they did. And Play Disrupt stopped being the Malcolm Hamilton Show.

He's still not great at delegating. His words.

There's an exercise he uses called the Award Ceremony. You imagine the project has already succeeded — won every award, flamingos presenting, the lot. And by the time you're building the flamingos, you've already done serious futures work without noticing. You've back-cast from success. You've made a plan without it feeling like planning.

It doesn't announce itself as a game. That's the whole trick.

If JIAS has already succeeded, what did it win? Most Infectious Practice That No Longer Needs Its Founder? The Golden Carrier Bag for Most Stuff Gathered Together?

I don't know yet. But imagining it helps.

Ps.

I also asked the interviewees for a game, if they wanted to share one.

Here is Malcolm’s:

stop drawing