Play. Explore.Create together.

A small, independent, research-driven game design and facilitation studio based in Rome, Italy. Games, workshops and playful learning formats for groups working with complex questions.

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Attended so far

LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum 2026

Guimarães, Portugal

Erasmus+ LOLA Local Landscape Systems Labs

LoLa Summer School Gdańsk 2026, Poland

COP31

Antalya, Türkiye

Istanbul Technical University

2025, Istanbul, Türkiye

Services

A handmade board game being laid out with tokens and blank cards

Tailor-made game design

Wooden pawns gathered around a round table

Participatory workshops

Playful learning experiences

A paper game prototype with scissors and cut-out shapes

Game co-design

One tall black pawn facing a semicircle of orange pawns

Facilitator training

Who it is for

NGOs

Educational institutions

Research projects

Erasmus+ projects

Projects

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HiveCity

Negotiating Climate-Resilient Futures

HiveCity is a participatory co-design game that brings different stakeholders together to explore climate-resilient urban futures. Through role-play, thematic challenges, and negotiation, participants navigate competing priorities, build alliances, and collaboratively propose interventions for more sustainable cities.

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An open card game box with a deck and three cards printed with circles

Systems Play

Exploring Interconnected Systems

Systems Play is a collaborative game designed to introduce systems thinking into landscape and urban design. By exploring relationships, feedback loops, and interconnected challenges, participants examine how decisions influence broader systems and discover opportunities for collaborative problem-solving.

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An open game box holding a city map, post-it notes and map pins

The More, the Merrier

Experiencing Different Perspectives

The More, the Merrier is an experiential role-playing game that encourages participants to explore urban environments through different stakeholder perspectives. Combining urban exploration, mapping, and collaborative discussion, the game supports critical reflection, dialogue, and participatory approaches to spatial design.

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Why play?

Games can help groups make space for dialogue, negotiation, co-design and reflection, especially when there is no simple answer.

The aim is not to force agreement, but to keep different views and possibilities visible.

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Process

Step 1

Discover

Step 2

Frame

Step 3

Prototype

Step 4

Test

Step 5

Facilitate

Step 6

Reflect

Ekin Seker, founder

The studio is founded by Ekin Seker, a landscape architect and doctoral researcher at ITU. The practice sits at the intersection of spatial practice, games and participatory methods.

Design a game with us

Need a game for your group? Let’s design it.

Tell us who you work with and what you want them to explore. We’ll shape a game around it.