Play Conference «Playable Cities» & Pop up Play Action How can public urban areas be organised to improve play for children and adults? Can play be used in the public domain as a catalyst for urban development? How can play instigate participative processes of appropriation? How can playgrounds become spaces for the live culture of play and encounter? Can playgrounds also be challenging and playable for adults? Play is rarely actively promoted in urban areas and is even more rarely…

Feral Vector is a festival about making games and gamelike things. Previously we fixed up the Doom Piano. We did Curiosity Live with an actual cube of concrete. We put on a screening of Andy Kelly’s Other Places. Every year we revel in the beauty of nature, videogames, and virtual worlds. We carve out a space unlike any other in the world, for game designers to talk about and practise game design, surrounded by the woodland beauty of Yorkshire.