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-and-a-half 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 that encompass augmented reality and immersive sound. At the end of your journey, share your stories together on the 960-square-metre outdoor terrace which overlooking the historic sheds of the Queen Victoria Market at narrm ngarggu Library.

Melbourne CBD 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. This is the third setting for this game, following Collingwood and Brisbane, that entangles people and place through imagination and play. The game design is informed by consultation with Indigenous Elders, urbanists, designers, artists, policymakers and game makers.

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-and-a-half hour journey hosted and led by an experienced gamemaster through an urban adventure set in Naarm Melbourne 2050. Starting in the City North Social Innovation Precinct within the RMIT campus along Cardigan Street, the journey explores the urban labyrinth surrounding forthcoming State Library Station to reach Queen Victoria Market, ending at narrm ngarrgu Library. Along the way, characters from the megacity of our collective future of 2050 appear, inviting the party into playful encounters entangled with past, present, and future stories of people and place, closing with a speculative design workshop at the library.