Troy Innocent Art

19/03/2026

Limited places still available for this Sunday at the Greater Dandenong Sustainability Festival 💚🎶🌿

11/03/2026

Looking for a hopeful and imaginative way to spend an afternoon in Dandenong? You’re invited to step into Reworlding — a live, interactive climate role-playing experience exploring how Dandenong could thrive as a regenerative and sustainable city in 2050 ✨

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Wander the city as it could be. Follow gentle prompts. Leave hopeful traces in unexpected places. 🌿🔮

Through playful challenges and creative climate scenarios, you’ll explore what a resilient, sustainable, and community-powered Dandenong might look and feel like — and how we can move toward it together. After the game, we’ll gather to share ideas, connect visions, and co-create a community climate vision for the future we want to live in. 🤝

Join us at Dandenong Market on Sunday March 22 at 2pm for a fun, future-focused experience imagining bold local climate solutions. This is a free event — to take part, grab your free ticket now. 2050 awaits!

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11/02/2026

Looking forward to sharing our experiences traversing intersections between posthuman methods and First Peoples knowledges through intensive play with place in the Australian Posthuman Summer Lab 💚🎶🌿

Join us for a panel on Culture & Technology tomorrow at ACMI FACT, moderated by Sophie Lieberman who leads a discussion about how climate and culture intersect with Jen Rae of Centre for Reworlding, Tim Shiel of Green Music Australia, Nell Whitley of Marshmallow Laser Feast, and myself!
play.lab .au

03/11/2025

Proud to be sharing Reworlding City North with .play.lab on the stage at in Barcelona! 🌇

This November 4–6, I’ll join 25,000+ changemakers at in Barcelona to explore how we can build cities that work better, for people and the planet. 🌍🏙️

Let’s shape the future together.

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If you’re in Barcelona at the Smart City Expo World Congress here are the coordinates for the session!

The Wellbeing City: Creating Urban Environments That Heal and Inspire
11:20 - 12:05
Thursday November 6
Stage: Impact Tech

How do urban policies and practices support the well-being of citizens and promote a healthier quality of life? In what ways can cities position social services as the foundation of thriving, resilient communities? This session will explore how cities are placing people at the center of urban agendas to ensure holistic wellness and care for all.

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31/10/2025

Loved the generous play that emerged in our urban adventures! We played well together over two days, imagining an autonomous off-the-grid Poblenou in Barcelona 2050. In a neighbourhood of diverse residents including chefs and farmers, a huntress and witch, dog walker and businessman, scholars and educators, people free and retired, musicians and designers, and many more. Although there was one close call, we didn’t lose hope along the way. Talking through regenerative urbanism with everyone at the end of each journey was a joyful and inspiring way to start a Visiting Fellowship in Barcelona. 💚🎶🌿

.play.lab

#2050

04/09/2025

Reworlding City North
October 4-5
Naarm Melbourne

We’re taking over Cardigan Street for a weekend of urban play to reworld the neighbourhood. 💚🎶🌿

Step into the year 2050, where Naarm Melbourne has become a sprawling megacity grappling with climate crisis, social change, and evolving technologies. Cardigan Street is remapped via Boon Wurrung knowledge and language, transforming the street into an urban commons for learning with place.

In this urban LARP, climate fiction meets urban adventure at a street party.

Join factions, gather resources, solve puzzles, encounter characters, and work together on creative solutions to regenerate the city during a climate emergency. Reworlding is playful and imaginative, both speculative and deeply connected to place. It embraces climate action for collective change, do-it-together skills, and community building to ask the question: when one world collapses, how do we build a new world together?

Who will we be in 2050? Could Melbourne survive as a megacity?

Play to find out.

03/09/2025

We’re taking over Cardigan Street for a weekend of urban play to reworld the neighbourhood. 💚🎶🌿

Step into the year 2050, where Naarm Melbourne has become a sprawling megacity grappling with climate crisis, social change, and evolving technologies. Cardigan Street is remapped via Boon Wurrung knowledge and language, transforming the street into an urban commons for learning with place.

In this urban LARP, climate fiction meets urban adventure at a street party.

Join factions, gather resources, solve puzzles, encounter characters, and work together on creative solutions to regenerate the city during a climate emergency. Reworlding is playful and imaginative, both speculative and deeply connected to place. It embraces climate action for collective change, do-it-together skills, and community building to ask the question: when one world collapses, how do we build a new world together?

Who will we be in 2050? Could Melbourne survive as a megacity?

Play to find out.

25/07/2025

Reworlding Naarm is booked out but… you can turn up for a Lucky Last Minute Ticket over the weekend 💚

Join an urban role-playing game set on the streets of Naarm Melbourne in 2050. Artist and academic Troy Innocent leads your party through a two-and-a-half hour journey through the inner-city, working together to imagine a world of the future.

#2050

11/07/2025

Reworlding Naarm ::: link in bio 💚🎶🌿

Join an urban role-playing game set on the streets of Naarm Melbourne in 2050. Artist and academic Troy Innocent leads your party through a two-and-a-half hour journey through the inner-city, working together to imagine a Naarm of the future. Along the way, take part in encounters with urban play that encompass augmented reality and immersive sound. At the end of your journey, share your stories together at narrm ngarggu Library.

Melbourne CBD North is the most densely populated area in Australia, with 31,100+ people per square kilometre, setting the scene for Naarm Melbourne in 2050 when the urban population is projected to reach 8 million, making it Australia’s first megacity. This is the third setting for this game, following Collingwood and Brisbane, that entangles people and place through imagination and play. The game design is informed by consultation with Indigenous Elders, urbanists, designers, artists, policymakers and game makers.

Reworlding is playful and imaginative, speculative and relational world-building that embraces actions for collective change, do-it-together skills and speculative design to answer the question: when one world collapses, how do we build the next?

#2050

Photo credit: Kit Edwardsplay.lab

22/05/2025

Join an urban play workshop in Seoul this weekend 🏃‍♀️🎶🌇 link in bio

Reworlding: Play The World We Want
ISEA 2025 SEOUL
Time : 10:00-13:00
Venue : Sogang University (X417)

다른 세상을 상상해보고 싶나요? 그렇다면 ‘도시 놀이’에서 시작하세요.
이 워크숍은 2050년의 상상된 서울을 걸어보는 경험으로, 증강 현실, 참여형 게임, 소리, 집단적 세계 구축을 포함한 도시 역할 놀이를 통해 이루어집니다. Reworlding은 변화를 위한 행동, 함께 하는 기술, 그리고 사고적 디자인(speculative design)을 통해 “하나의 세상이 무너질 때, 우리는 어떻게 다음 세상을 만들 것인가?”라는 질문에 답을 찾고자 합니다.

So, you want to imagine a different world? Start with urban play. This workshop involves walking through an imagined Seoul in 2050, created through urban role play encompassing augmented reality, participatory games, sound, and collective world building. Reworlding embraces actions for change, do-it-together skills and speculative design to answer the question: when one world collapses, how do we build the next?


seoulplay.lab

18/05/2025

05/03/2025

Field of Play
Troy Innocent 2007

painted aluminium, custom luminaires, lasercut steel, shotblast pavers, multi-player digital game, computer-controlled light, four-channel sound

Play has become an integral part of almost every aspect of contemporary life. Field of Play is an urban art environment that transforms Digital Harbour into a zone for play. It consists of digital icons rendered in a range of materials that are integrated within the surrounding architecture and landscape. Central to the work are three iconographic languages inspired by electronic networks, digital games, and tribal cultures. They represent the communities that work and play within Digital Harbour.

After dark, a digital game generates patterns of light and sound via the illuminated icons in Harbour Lane. Inspired by the classic game of rock-paper-scissors (Janken), it may be played online or on site. Gameplay is based on interaction between the three sets of iconography - orange, blue and green. The game connects two different kinds of public space – the virtual space of the Internet and the real space of Digital Harbour.