Board Game Workshop with Harun Morrison

Meeting Point

Accessibility:
- The meeting point is approximately 10 minutes from Rummelsburg S-Bahn station (S3) or 3–5 minutes from the tram stop Gustav-Holzmann-Straße (Line 21). These stations have step-free access.
https://wheelmap.org/way/409110214 
- On-site support personnel is available for people with disabilities.
- The site is wheelchair accessible.
- Accessible bathrooms are approximately 15 minutes from the location.
- Stools will be provided.
- Contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com

Please register via anmeldung@ngbk.de.

You begin as a raindrop. Flowing Streams is a water-themed board game in-progress. You are invited to co-develop the rule system and game play for using a board and set of icons as prompts.  Participants are encouraged to informally create and test new rules and objectives as a way of thinking about the cultural, spiritual, industrial and meteorological roles of waters. The workshop structure involves dividing the attendees into smaller groups of four and five, giving each group a template game board. The group are tasked with developing a rule system for a game using different textual and graphic prompts as starting points. Part of the workshop focus is being attentive to how different rule systems embody and promote different ideologies. E.g. is the group looking to replicate the individualistic, acquisitional logics of Monopoly for example? Does the game necessarily need a conclusion? If two rain drops meet, do they become a single body, in turn leading to two players becoming partners in the game?

Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London, he is a Somerset House Studio Resident. He is currently an associate artist with Greenpeace UK and teaches in the COOP project “Trespass, Loopholes, Action Design” at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI). His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2025. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. He is a former trustee of the Black Cultural Archive (est. 1981).

Part of PATH 1: SPACES AS THRESHOLDS (on crossovers and commons)
With contributions by Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr, hand breast heart kollektiv, Mirja Busch, Harun Morrison, House’ it going? (Laura Margarete Bertelt & Uli Kneisl)

Where does a threshold begin, and what does it divide? Bridges, borders, passageways – cities are full of in-between places where people come and go, meet and move apart, where some things are easy to see and others remain hidden. Some thresholds invite and include, others reinforce exclusion. How do we find common ground within sites of multitudes?

This Path is guided by the belief that urban spaces should be understood as public resources and communal goods that are accessible to all members of society, human and non-human. The contributions explore aspects of invisibility and accessibility in a fractured world (Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr); climate shifts and puddle-watching as new forms of attention (Mirja Busch); the role of waterways and changing landscapes (Harun Morrison); memory culture and erasure through a mythological lens (hand breast heart kollektiv); and the evolving architecture threatening common land (House’ it going?). Together, they trace how bodies move through thresholds shaped by environmental fragility, layered histories, and urban transformation.