Climate Community Streetplay – Playing with the Trouble

The effects of global warming appear not only as extreme events like floods, storms, and droughts, but also as gradual changes such as heat stress, which affects residents’ health and requires community adaptation. There is a need for greater awareness of the interconnectedness between humans and other species in shared climate conditions, along with speculative perspectives on future neighborhoods.

CCSP brings urban climate issues to the streets, allowing participants to explore the challenges of global warming through play. The project links social and ecological aspects in vulnerable areas with the tradition of street games. Players engage with local climate risks and discover unexpected alliances in their surroundings.

Students, youth, practitioners, and scholars have contributed to this evolving project, facilitating games in Berlin, Bangkok, and Chiang Mai. Despite different contexts, all sites tell stories of people and other species coping with climate impacts. The games turn streets into interaction spaces: players may protect trees during droughts, transform heat islands into cool zones, accompany guardian species, rescue animals during floods, or discover biodiverse oases for pollinators.

These activities adopt an entangled approach, highlighting urban environments as multispecies life-worlds.

Paola Alfaro d'Alençon – Architect, urban researcher, Prof. Frankfurt UAS, co-founder u Lab Studio

Ruttikorn Vuttikorn – Toy and game designer, play activist, founder of Club Creative Ltd.

Myriel Milićević – Artist, interaction designer, Prof. Design Dept., University of Applied Sciences Potsdam