Mat Party          

          a social design game for collectivity.

“Equal Society”, Dutch Design Week ‘25

Mat Party is a participatory game of social design that uses movement to explore collective intimacy in public space. It invites participants to take up space together through a shifting choreography of pronouns: me, you, we, they. Participants follow action prompts that engage interlockable mat panels as extensions of their bodies and tools for sculpting the space surrounding them.

Designed by:

Rana Irmak Aksoy  |  Designer (M.Arch)
Bengi Amaç ODE-S  |  Designer (M.Arch)
Can Emre Uygan  |  Sound Designer
Studio Blai  |  Circular Fabrication

Exhibited at Design Perron

The game celebrates everyday gestures and the ephemeral intimacy of bodily gatherings. Participants are encouraged to watch and listen physically, to respond to one another with curiosity and presence. In this way, Mat Party becomes a living structure, a social fabric or “mat” woven moment by moment through motion, proximity, and play.

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