Come to Leytonstone Toy Library for a family-friendly showcase event to meet the artists, celebrate and play Wild Wired! Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park, a community-driven artistic commission and mobile-friendly game in response to the Radical Landscapes exhibition at the William Morris Gallery.

In a series of artist-led workshops in collaboration with Leytonstone Toy Library and ​​the Youth Club at Worth Unlimited this summer, HERVISIONS invited local residents to imagine the future of Langthorne Park set in a parallel universe, and collaboratively create a narrative, landscapes and characters for a site-specific game. During the workshops, we collaged words and images of local wildlife into stories and visual narratives with the help of image-generating AI systems such as Midjourney and ChatGPT while deliberating on their unperfectness and speculating on how the park could look in hundreds of years. Drawing inspiration from local plants and their medicinal properties and imagining the land of the park as a living body inspired by Taoism, we began to wonder what superpowers its organs could harness.

We are thrilled to invite you to see how the workshop outcomes have transformed into an interactive mobile-friendly game. To play in the park, scan one of the QR codes on banners located around Langthorne Park E11 using your mobile phone and look for passwords nearby to access five game environments.

Leytonstone Toy Library, Birch Grove, London E11 4YG. Light refreshments will be provided.

Wild Wired! Rewilding Encounters of Langthorne Park is co-curated and produced by Zaiba Jabbar and Tanya Boyarkina with Christine Lai. Read more about the commission here.