WORLDPLAY is the opening move of a network of avant-garde revolutionaries LARPing as some kind of commons economics activists. It is also the main title of a new event series, conceived as a pop-up physical hub for prefiguring and prehearsing postcapitalist futures through fiction, performance and play.
+WORLDPLAY is an opening move for a network that explores the revolutionary potential of play: What changes when we treat games as ways of organising, not just expressing? How do those changes expand from one gathering to many, carried by people, through their practice?
-The first edition of WORLDPLAY issues a beckoning call to budding sci-fi writers, game-makers, artivists, LARPers, weird economists and general eutopian dreamers to collectively scribble futures, materialise speculative artefacts from parallel presents, establish living archives for radical imagination, and devise ways of hijacking public spaces, cyberspace and eventually reality itself.
+It's also the title of a new event series, conceived as a pop-up hub for prefiguring radical futures – economic, social and cultural – through fiction, design, performance and play. The first edition of WORLDPLAY issues a call to game designers and players, artivists, weird economists and utopian dreamers. Together, we will:
-Part experimental/experiential playground, part aspiring peer-to-peer guerrilla futuring social network, WORLDPLAY channels international and intersectional postcapitalist desire through a seed offering of counter-hegemonic fiction engines and games as social organisations.
+Part experimental playground, part aspiring peer-to-peer guerrilla futuring network, WORLDPLAY channels underground postcapitalist desire by sowing counter-hegemonic fiction engines as seeds and games as social organisations.