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A Summer of Gentrification: Let’s Wrap It Up

(Fall teaser below!) After successful runs in Brooklyn’s Come Out & Play and London’s Hide & Seek Weekender (WOW!), we brought everything back to where it all began… Toronto’s Kensington Market! Back in the spring, we did our first ever run of Gentrification: The Game on Augusta Ave, through the shops, restaurants, bars, parks and [...]

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Our Game Could Be Your Life

TLDR: We’ve got an SXSW panel in the running. Vote for us! I was with some friends today, and had one of those curious moments where the zeitgeist seems to manifest before you, and remind you that it’s no longer the 90s. There was substantial indecision amidst a conversation, and to provoke some sort of [...]

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Spacing Podwave Radiocast on G:TG

Spacing Radio has a podcast all about Gentrification: The Game! For this SUMMER SHORT, reporter Andrew Walsh brings us the sounds of the game, while producer Mieke Anderson catches up with one of the game’s creators, David Fono, to talk about the importance of public play-time and tackling the subject of gentrification. Listen to it [...]

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Hide and Seek Weekender Review: Taunt and The Agency

This year’s Hide and Seek’s Weekender was a delicious magical sandwich filled with, fun, inspiration and silliness. Since we were there to run Gentrification: The Game! (thanks for having us guys!) I didn’t get much time to play, but of the few I got to experience I had two favourites: Taunt and The Agency. I [...]

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Gentrification: The Game!: British Expansion Pack!

About a month ago, we here at the Atmosphere Industries Top Secret Underground Lair received a very exciting email: an invitation to do Gentrification: The Game! ! in London as part of the Hide and Seek Weekender on the Southbank, home of many iconic London landmarks – the London Eye, and right across the river, [...]

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