The Petrichorn is a game that invites players to participate in a hunt for an imaginal creature. When hunting the imaginal we must first re-enchant, re-weird the world, becoming animal, becoming other. In a patch of woodland near Hildegard, we will work together using all our senses as well as dousing rods to navigate. We will take up the fundamental challenge of magical systems: imagine that the world works in a particular way, then act accordingly and seeing what happens – in an attempt to find real ways to escape the impasse into which modernity has led us.

With artist and game designer Simon Johnson.

Reserve HERE, free of charge
Meeting point: Hildegard.
 

About Simon Johnson:
Since 2003 Simon has specialised in designing urban games across a spectrum that include cult hits like the city wide zombie chase game 2.8 Hours Later as well as the real-time policy simulation Hivemind for the United Nations launch of the Sustainable Development goals. He co-directs a studio called Free Ice Cream, which is dedicated to making public space and digital space more participatory and playful. In 2024, he set up the not-for-profit Parlour to deliver some of the technology developed by Free Ice Cream into into projects focused on social benefit.