future play lab. Information

Urban play connects people and place with design and cities, making them vibrant and liveable, reflecting their creative, linguistic, cultural, social, and urban diversity. The future play lab works with local government and industry partners connecting speculative design, creative placemaking, extended realities (XR) through urban play to explore new ways of being in the world. Working with reworlding as a transdisciplinary methodology for practice-led research connecting Indigenous knowledges and posthuman thinking, the lab frames play as dynamic and disruptive but also immersive, collaborative, and regenerative. It is home to a diverse community of researchers, students, industry leaders, and policymakers focussed on the social, cultural, and economic opportunities of creative play.