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Reworlding: Play The World We Want

Troy Innocent. Juried Artist
Museum of Brisbane
https://www.museumofbrisbane.com.au/whats-on/reworlding-meanjin-workshop-with-troy-innocent/

Artist Statement

So, you want to imagine a different world? Start with urban play.

Reworlding: Meanjin is an immersive role-playing game set on the streets of Meanjin/Brisbane in 2050. You are invited to join artist and academic Troy Innocent on a three-hour journey through the inner-city, working with your group to imagine a Meanjin of the future. Along the way, take part in urban role-play encompassing augmented reality, participatory games and sound. At the end of your journey, return to the Museum to share your findings together.
‘Reworlding’ is a form of speculative and relational world-building. To ‘reworld’ is to nurture and develop existing patterns in culture, nature and society – evolution over revolution. Reworlding embraces actions for change, do-it-yourself skills and speculative design to answer the question: when one world collapses, how do we build the next?

Reworlding: Meanjin was developed in conversation with Warunghu, Aunty Raelene Baker and Museum of Brisbane experts. The project expands on a previous iteration, Reworlding: Play The World We Want, presented in Naarm/Melbourne by RMIT future play lab during Melbourne Design Week 2023. The game was designed using research provided by Aboriginal Elders, urbanists, designers, artists, policymakers and game makers.

Bookings are available from Saturday 22 – Sunday 30 June 2024.

This residency is in partnership with the Museum of Brisbane (MoB).
MoB’s Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.

About the artists

Dr Innocent (he/they) is an urban play scholar, artist gamemaker and Director of the future play lab at RMIT University in Narrm Melbourne. The lab develops socially engaged and site responsive urban play connecting experimental game design, public space, posthuman methods, and creative technologies. Working with the city as a material, their approach to reworlding develops posthuman methods that reimagine, reconfigure and reconnect with the world. This involves transdisciplinary practices across design, sculpture, animation, sound, light and installation using methods of multiplatform storytelling that connect objects with their environment to build speculative worlds that playfully defamiliarise and disrupt urban life.

These worlds explore connections between language and reality, working with the affect of constructed aesthetic languages that traverse geometric abstraction and digital iconography, learned through play. Innocent has 25 years’ experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, developing augmented reality games that blend physical objects with digital interfaces to reimagine everyday urban environments in playful ways; situating his work in Aarhus, Melbourne, Bristol, Barcelona, Istanbul, Ogaki, Sydney, Tampere and Hong Kong. They are creator of 64 Ways of Being, an urban adventure platform combining audio walks and mixed realities to situate players in new experiences of place.

Credits: Troy Innocent

URL: http://futureplaylab.io/

ISEA2024 acknowledges the Turrbal and Yugara as the First Nations owners of the lands where the symposium will be held. We pay our respects to their elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. We also acknowledge and pay respects to all First Nations peoples across the continent and beyond Australian shores.

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ISEA2024 acknowledges the Turrbal and Yugara as the First Nations owners of the lands where the symposium will be held. We pay our respects to their elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. We also acknowledge and pay respects to all First Nations peoples across the continent and beyond Australian shores.