In an increasingly hybrid cultural landscape, arts organisations need flexible, scalable tools that allow them to build on their creative expertise while embracing new modes of digital participation. C&T’s Prospero platform offers exactly that — a practitioner-designed digital facilitation system that empowers organisations to blend their art form knowledge with interactive technology, extending engagement, widening participation, and reimagining arts education and learning.

At its heart, Prospero is not a one-size-fits-all e-learning system but a flexible digital canvas. It enables arts organisations to create Smartscripts — branching, interactive structures that combine media, storytelling, performance, and user participation. These Smartscripts can deliver workshops, artist-led courses, public engagement experiences, behind-the-scenes content, or participatory creative projects, all shaped by the organisation’s own art form expertise.

Prospero supports deep engagement by inviting audiences and participants to become co-creators rather than passive consumers. Whether designing a digital visual art workshop, a music composition tool, a virtual rehearsal room for a theatre project, or a public-facing heritage storytelling experience, arts organisations can use Prospero to bring audiences directly into the creative process. Through interactive exercises, real-time feedback, multimedia content, and participant-driven narratives, the platform enables powerful, meaningful involvement for communities, young people, and new audiences.

One of Prospero’s key strengths for arts organisations is its support for arts and learning. Organisations can create interactive, curriculum-linked resources that bring creative practice directly into schools, colleges, and community settings. This includes building standalone digital workshops, hybrid learning modules that combine live sessions with digital content, or full online programmes that scale the organisation’s learning and outreach offer far beyond geographical limitations. In doing so, Prospero allows organisations to deepen their educational impact while remaining artistically led.

Prospero also excels at enabling distributed practice — a way of working increasingly central to the arts sector. Artists, educators, and participants no longer need to be physically co-located to collaborate meaningfully. Prospero allows arts organisations to run projects across multiple sites, regions, or even internationally, providing a shared digital space where collaboration, co-creation, and rehearsal can continue asynchronously or in real-time. This creates new opportunities for partnerships, residencies, and artist exchanges that are no longer dependent on physical travel or fixed workshop spaces.

Crucially, Prospero builds directly on an organisation’s existing art form expertise. It is not a replacement for artistic skill but a way to extend and amplify it. Dance organisations can build interactive choreographic tools; music organisations can create composition workshops or digital ensembles; visual arts organisations can develop studio-based tutorials or collaborative gallery experiences; theatre organisations can devise participatory drama or storytelling projects. The platform flexes around the creative language of each discipline, supporting practitioners to embed their authentic methodologies into digital practice.

Prospero’s interdisciplinary nature makes it particularly valuable for organisations working across art forms or seeking to explore new creative frontiers. A theatre company can collaborate with digital artists; a heritage organisation can blend archival research with

participatory performance; a music organisation can combine live composition with gamified storytelling. The platform’s modular, media-rich design invites cross-disciplinary experimentation while providing the structure to guide and hold complex projects.

In terms of practical delivery, Prospero is designed to be easy to use and highly affordable. Organisations do not need in-house developers or technical specialists to create sophisticated, interactive experiences. Its drag-and-drop authoring tools, intuitive interface, and browser-based access allow arts organisations to focus on content and creativity, while the platform handles the technical delivery. Because it is subscription-based, Prospero allows organisations of all sizes — from small artist-led collectives to national institutions — to adopt digital practice without the prohibitive costs of bespoke development.

In a sector increasingly defined by hybridity, digital engagement, and community co-creation, Prospero provides arts organisations with a practitioner-led, flexible, and powerful tool that enables them to sustain and grow their mission, build new audiences, and pioneer new forms of interdisciplinary creative practice for the 21st century.