Description

Join an urban role-playing game set on the streets of Naarm Melbourne in 2050. Artist and academic Troy Innocent leads your party through a two-hour journey through the inner-city, working together to imagine a Naarm of the future. Along the way, take part in encounters with urban play with future characters and mixed realities.

City North is the most densely populated area in Australia, with 31,100+ people per square kilometre, setting the scene for Naarm Melbourne in 2050 when the urban population is projected to reach 8 million, making it Australia’s first megacity. In the second edition of this scenario, you travel with a customised Crumpler bag kitted out for urban play.

Crumpler gave us bags to play with, we transformed them into characters you can play. You carry the bag but can't keep it. Each bag of tricks holds play materials for social innovation, urban codes, eco literacies, Indigenous knowledges, regenerative design, tactical urbanism, sensory play and more.

Reworlding is playful and imaginative, speculative and relational world-building that embraces actions for collective change, do-it-together skills and speculative design to answer the question: when one world collapses, how do we build the next?

What's On

Up to sixteen people can join a two hour journey hosted and led by an experienced gamemaster through an urban adventure set in Naarm Melbourne 2050. Moving through the City North Social Innovation Precinct, key waypoints include RMIT University, Cardigan Street, State Library Station, Queen Victoria Market, Science Gallery Melbourne, and the labyrinth of streets in between. Along the way, Naarm is the main character as it makes offers to players and draws upon its complex, living systems to live well together. Through playful encounters, the party work together to solve puzzles and make decisions that regenerate the city through crisis and complexity.

Children's Activities

The journey is not specifically created for young people but they are very welcome.