The city as playground

For this year’s Day of Architecture, Expodium invited Playful Arts Festival to organize a day about play and the city. Goal: to publicly research the way [digital] play influences the city. Actually, it is more than a public research, it is an experiment in which you are invited to participate. We invited artists Abner Preis, Ieke Trinks, Phoenix Perry and Jedidjah Julia Noomen to introduce you to the playful city. Before their lectures and performances take place, around 14.00h Expodium and Playful Arts Festival explain why ‘play’ is such an important tool in analyzing of -and acting in the city.

Saturday 20 June 2015. 12:00 – 17:00

Location:
Werkspoorkathedraal
Tractieweg 41, Utrecht

Throughout the day

‘Urban Game: Save the World’ – Jedidjah Julia Noomen
On Saturday go to Werkspoorkathedraal to pick up materials for your journey. Then go to http://www.save-theworld.nl/ and pick Utrecht as your location. Follow the story/instructions.

WORKSHOPS

12:00 – 14:00 Workshop Urban Hacking/ Hack the City – Abner Preis* [in English]
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop One Button Game – Phoenix Perry [in English]*

More info about the workshops can be found here: http://playfulartsfestival.com/join-or-playful-workshops-during-culturele-zondag-the-city-as-a-playground/

*We expect the participants to be present at the workshops for the complete workshop.
Send a message to info@expodium.nl if you want to take part in one of the workshops.

ATTRACTIONS

14.00 – 14.20 Introduction – Friso Wiersum (Expodium)
14.30 – 14.45 Introduction to ‘playful arts’- Zuraida Buter (Playful Arts Festival)
15.00 – 15.15 Talk Abner Preis [in English]
15.30 – 16.15 Talk + performance Ieke Trinks
16.30 – 16.45 Talk Jedidjah Julia Noomen: Save the world

At the end of the day the beautiful Werkspoorkathedraal will be the venue for an opera! Tickets for that event are sold separately.