Come out and play

Original images: Come Out And Play, Movium 

Finding it hard to overlook the resemblance between the grid pattern of the streets surrounding Washington Park Square and a Pac Man game plan Mattia Romeo and Gregory Trefry initiated a human version of the game calling it Pac Manhattan in 2004. (Gregory Trefry is also one of the presenters at the upcoming Movium Winter Conference I posted about here.) This came to be the starting point of the annual festival Come Out And Play offering play and games in the city streets, squares and parks with its inhabitants as participants.

The festival, every year growing and every year moving to a new location to attract new kinds of people, wants to provide a forum for new types of public games and for the participants to play and interact with their city while experiencing a sense of belonging and a strengthening in their relationship with the city and its public spaces.

Via Movium.