Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 July | 3-5pm

(start at arebyte White Post Lane)

Migrations of Cool:

live action street game where artists shape the city

Find a warehouse! Cheap Rent. Do Art! Build a Scene.

Then you’re cool. And they all want cool.

Cool sells… and so the regeneration begins.

Migrations of Cool is a live action street game about the movements of artists throughout the city. The pattern is well known: artists seeking low-cost work spaces find a foothold in old industrial areas and gradually, creative communities emerge. But the commodification of cool turns creative scenes into targets of regeneration and, with rising rents, the artists are often forced to up sticks and move on. Is this pattern inevitable? Or are the other ways of operating? This game is an invitation to play your way towards some potential answers.

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part of

Crowd Control:
exploring collective behaviour in Hackney Wick

Hackney Wick becomes playground and petri dish for a series of games and experiments exploring the collective interactions between individuals, groups and their environments.

Crowd Control connects art, science, law and urban design in an interdisciplinary study of the control mechanisms that affect human behaviour, exploring how groups move together, transfer information, make decisions and respond to change.

Join the team to participate in this unique social experiment.

Find out more about the Crowd Control project, the research team and other activity at: crowdcontrol.london

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