WORLDPLAY

WORLDPLAY

: To be Defined

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Avant-garde revolutionaries LARPing as commons economists

WORLDPLAY is a pop-up physical hub for prefiguring postcapitalist futures through fiction, performance and playโ€”the opening move of a new event series and emerging network.

A beckoning call to sci-fi writers, game-makers, artivists, LARPers, weird economists and eutopian dreamers to collectively scribble futures, materialise speculative artefacts, and devise ways of hijacking public spaces, cyberspace and eventually reality itself.

๐ŸŽญ Reality as
design space
โœ’๏ธ Speculative
fictions
๐ŸŽฒ Games as
social orgs

Co-Created Programme

Partly curated, partly self-organised unconference styleโ€”emphasising lasting peer collaboration.

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Shape the Programme

Pitch sessions and co-labs in advance and on-site

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Digital Publishing

Partner with orgs like Institute of Network Cultures

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Game Prototyping

Selected games resourced and shared as open designs

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Distributed Network

Stay connected through shared project threads

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Sustainable Models

Co-ops, art DAOs, fiction-fueled crowdfunds

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Open Source Worlds

Co-author worlds through games and experiments

Interwoven Threads

Plus reality-bending games, unfinished stories, LARPs, and experiments you bring.

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Playing with Reality

Culture and social conventions as reprogrammable design spaces. Interventions and reality hacks blurring performance and politics.

Inspirations

The Yes Men Bureau of Inverse Technology Billboard Liberation Front Center for Political Beauty Situationist International
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Socio-Economic Science Fictions

  • Hyperstitional fictions grounded in prefigurative politics
  • Peer-supported speculative writing workshops
  • Co-authoring worlds through experimental formats

Inspirations

Walkaway Ministry for the Future Multispecies Cities Everything for Everyone
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Guerrilla Futuring

  • Artefacts from parallel/future realities
  • Soft LARPs and worldbuilding exercises
  • Street interventions and commonist propaganda

Inspirations

Futurematic Treaty of Finsbury Park Queer Embassy of Possible Futures NOVA: Future Thoughts
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Tabletop & Game Commons

  • Radical analogue and digital/hybrid games
  • Prototyping collectively-owned game artefacts and mechanics

Inspirations

Half-Earth Socialism Post-Growth Toolkit Social Strike Game The Transition Year
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Infrastructures for Imagination

  • Open-source world-making platforms
  • Anticipatory fiction archives
  • Connecting distributed nodes of practice

Inspirations

Witnesspedia POCAS Nordic Larp Wiki

When & Where

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June 7โ€“13, 2026 7 days of worldbuilding
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Hirschwang an der Rax, Austria Austrian Alps, ~1.5 hours from Vienna by train
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Commons Hub Co-working/co-living venue for artists and decentralized communities
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๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria ยท Alps ยท Commons Hub

Register Interest

First edition. Limited spaces.

Early registration gets you

  • โœ“ Priority booking when tickets open
  • โœ“ Pitch sessions and co-labs
  • โœ“ Pre-event online gatherings
  • โœ“ Programme development updates

Who should attend?

Sci-fi writers, game-makers, artivists, LARPers, weird economists, futurists, performers, eutopian dreamers.

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Join fellow dreamers, makers, and reality-benders in prefiguring postcapitalist futures.