Building on five years of experimental urban play, future play lab presents a story-driven live action role play where speculative fiction meets urban adventure at a village carnival.
Step into the year 2050, where Naarm Melbourne has grown into a sprawling megacity grappling with climate change, societal shifts, and evolving technologies. Reworlding is a two-day, streetwide immersive climate action game inviting participants to navigate this future. Players will shape the city’s regeneration by joining factions, gathering resources, solving puzzles, and working together on creative solutions to make our future community thrive. The game will run for two days, allowing players to build their own neighbourhood together while the street is closed for the event!
Urban play is a creative strategy to re-imagine, reconnect, remake place and improve societal wellbeing. Everyday places and things such as a local street, park, intersection, a tram, building, river can become opportunities for community activity and social interaction through play. The city becomes host to a range of platforms and technologies such as location-based games and augmented reality as well as low-tech interventions like chalk and paste-ups, walking trails and urban art. Playful citizens connect with their town or city in new ways, sensing new ways of being, and finding spaces for play through creative technologies and digital placemaking.
We are based in the School of Design in the city campus of RMIT University.
