Intimate Translations

Abstract

Abstract The Treaty of Finsbury Park (Treaty) is a Live Action Role Play (LARP) established by arts organisation Furtherfield as part of its ambitions for more-than-human co-living in a London park. It notionally brings together the life forms of the park to agree a future governance structure that is fairer and better able to withstand climate change. CreaTures, the research project which sponsored Treaty, has ambitions to transform the narratives by which humans dwell together, researching the influence of playful encounters to make change. In this chapter, we use Treaty as a case study, and CreaTures as a wider context, to ask what change might be possible in urban contexts if we look beyond buildings and individuals. We ask what happens when creative practitioners translate imagination into intimate actions to consider multispecies interdependence. From these reflections, we draw some tentative conclusions as to what lessons we might learn for the more-than-human smart city.