EVENT: WORLDPLAY (7–13 JUNE 2026, AUSTRIA)

WORLDPLAY 
7 to 13 June 2026
Commons Hub
Hirschwang an der Rax, Austria
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the TL;DR version:

WORLDPLAY is a pop-up physical hub for prefiguring and prehearsing radical futures through fiction, design, performance and play.
Where/when: June 7–13, 2026, Commons Hub, Hirschwang an der Rax, Austria.
Who it’s for: writers, game-makers, LARPers, artivists, weird economists, eutopian dreamers.
Format: partly curated, partly self-organised in unconference style, with an emphasis on collaborative prototyping and shared outputs.

WORLDPLAY, scheduled for 7–13 June 2026 at Commons Hub in Hirschwang an der Rax, is the first edition of a new series organised by the Crypto Commons Association. The event is convened by Rok Kranjc, Pekko Koskinen, and Carolina Carvalho, in collaboration with Commons Hub, ninety minutes from Vienna by train. Its programme combines curated sessions with unconference activity, inviting participants to propose workshops, LARPs, collaborative writing, and game prototyping both in advance and on site. Attendance is capped at sixty, and the event addresses a wide constituency: writers, game designers, LARPers, commons and degrowth activists, speculative designers, researchers, and open-source developers. Outputs are built for circulation: open-access anthologies, tabletop games, LARP toolkits, and collectively prototyped game designs intended for further production. The emphasis throughout falls on shared making and peer exchange.

Play, in WORLDPLAY’s terms, is a procedure for organising collective futures.

The thematic programme carries its own idiom: Playing with Reality, Socio-Economic Science Fictions, Parallel Economic Worlding & Guerrilla Futuring, Iterating Eutopia on the Tabletop & Game Commons, and Infrastructures for Imagination & Peerticipation. The language is wilfully eccentric, and the curatorial proposition holds regardless. WORLDPLAY treats speculative fiction, LARP, and game design as instruments of prefiguration, forms of rehearsal for worlds that remain unbuilt. The event tests social procedures for collectively imagining alternative arrangements.

Commons Hub provides the material conditions for the prototyping agenda: a 3D printer, laser cutter, sewing station, bookbinding station, farmbot, and workshop rooms. Catering covers the first three days and then passes to community self-organisation. Accommodation is available on site, with subsidies indicated in the project's transparency documentation.

Expressions of interest are currently open, with early registration tied to priority ticket access, session pitching, mycollabs, and invitations to pre-event online gatherings. For more information, click the button below.