PlayPublik 2012

Festival for Playful Public Spaces 9-12 August 2012 in Berlin

From the website:

From Berlin, PLAYPUBLIK explores what playful public spaces mean for urban societies: from digitally commercialized cities of western democracies, to new post-socialist spaces in Budapest; from Jo’Burg after the end of apartheid to Street Games in Athens during the financial crisis. PLAYPUBLIK is about systems in turmoil and our place in them. Not about ‘The System’. But about the many small ones that structure our everyday by transforming our hopes, fears and pleasures. Making games, testing and discussing them can help us how to better understand how to live in this world.

The Festival is composed of four thematic layers: Regrounding Play, Playing with Location and Control, Playful Politics of Self/Organization, Playing with Fictions and Realities. Every day, one layer is in focus and highlight one aspect of the complex relation of gameplay and public spaces.

Website: http://playpublik.de/