Building on five years of experimental urban play, future play lab presents a story-driven LARP where speculative fiction meets urban adventure at a village carnival. Join an experiment in shared world building through live action role-play set in 2050 as Naarm Melbourne becomes a megacity during a global climate emergency. This original game design is informed by research with First Peoples, urbanists and futurists, artists and designers, policymakers and gamemakers on design and cities. What kind of world will we build together? Play to find out.

How do we live together in 2050? During a weekend street party on Cardigan Street, competing visions for the future come into conflict. Resources are scarcer than ever, but knowledges both old and new have gained new vitality. Reworlding has shifted from theory to practice, embracing actions for change, do-it-together methods, mapped by signs of life hidden in plain sight.
Life finds a way. Meanwhile the street finds its own uses for things.

Event runs weekend of October 5-6
$64 + booking fee
All proceeds support our NPCs.

Future play lab operates via a code of conduct supporting safe play founded on values of belonging and inclusivity established in 2019. Participating in our events means agreement to this code of conduct, available at this link.

This game will take place during Melbourne International Games Week on Cardigan Street, Carlton. The neighbourhood is being explored as a ‘social innovation precinct’ by RMIT University exploring connections between city north campus with Queen Victoria Market, narrm ngarrgu Library, and forthcoming State Library Station.

Queen Victoria Market

Narrm Ngarrgu Library

State Library Station

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