Participant Event Map

What a fabulous What If 2026! We'll keep this content live for reference until new content for 2027 is available.

Participant Map Info

The Participant Map is accessible in the Dust app, AND you’ll be offered a printed map when you arrive at Gate!

Key objectives with the Placement teams this year included:

  • provide varied and increased activities in the Forest zone. We have loads of theme camps, sound camps, and art projects offering both daytime and nighttime activities and attractions.
  • separate foot traffic as much as possible from roving cars and trucks
  • present the magic river as a backdrop to interactive art
  • support new friendships between us through a strategy to put art, hosting venues, and common areas toward the pedestrian side of pathways
  • encourage community building by putting camps together based on energy and engagement

Vehicles transport us to the site, and then become clutter! This year’s site plan suggests that community spaces, art, and interactive zones be located at the front of pedestrian pathways, vehicle clutter be kept at the rear of camps with tents and RVs in the middle.

We hope that many camps will place elements of pageantry on the pedestrian sides, such as banners, LED lights and other elements to engage other participant and create a festive temporary autonomous zone to play and attract one another.

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