Rebuild the Festival in 36 Hours

The headline venue is unusable, the sponsor will not move the date, and half the audience is already travelling. Invent options, select one, and turn it into an executable plan.

Scenario

A waterfront culture festival loses its venue after a structural inspection. You have 36 hours, a fixed safety limit, a modest contingency budget, and access to several strange city spaces that were never designed for events.

Your Role

Festival rescue lead

Counterpart

Skeptical city operations director

Your Goals

Generate materially different concepts
Select against explicit criteria
Define a timed plan with owners and fallback triggers

Constraints

•Safety capacity cannot be negotiated
•Do not assume unlimited livestream rights
•Preserve one memorable element rather than a diluted version of everything

Ready to Begin?

You'll have 8:00 to complete this exercise