LIFE LOOPS - A collective non-human journey

Life Loops is a short urban LARP game about how ecosystems interact and change through time. The game encourages players to de-centre the human perspective and to embrace complexity, chance and non-binary thinking. It is played around a public square or a block with four stops in a loop, starting and ending at the same place. Participants play a character while walking down a street with others, using prompts to explore and interact as that character.

This work was created by artists and social/game designers and researchers: Alex Brown, Johannes Equizi, Matilde Patuelli, Ludwig Küster, Amy Boulton, Balint Mark Turi, Kiprianos Skafidas in the context of Trust in Play school of urban game design: The Elefsina Cycles for Eleusis European capital of culture 2023. 

A full game set in Greek and English was gifted as part of an urban games bundle to the people of Elevsis after presenting and play-testing our games with them. 
The game is open source: it can be played and edited by any group in any urban space.

Download the complete printable game-set here: English, Greek.

Video: Matilde Patuelli
Images: Aris Kamarotos