“Mind The Gap” focuses on the “urban voids” and aims to “protect” and “maintain” them. Players are caretakers of  the three environments that in the Cypriot city are usually located around a void - workspace ,entertainment, housing. The above environments benefit from the voids’ existence by being able to temporarily expand into them. The game promotes a synergy environment amongst the players, who “mind the gap” and must co-organize events into it by applying tools that belong to each of them and exchange them effectively in order for the temporary event, instructed the game, to take place and, by doing so, to prevent the scenario of it’s loss in case that a permanent use settles into the area of the void.

The Cypriot urban tissue is filled with voids that are surrounded by environments that extend temporarily and even periodically into them.  The urban voids of “Old Nicosia” and the existence of the “Green Line”/ “Buffer Zone”  were taken into account in the study of the role and behaviour  of the voids inside the city of Nicosia. For example, in certain cases the players may have the luck to take the role of the UN as caretakers of the voids and act accordingly, as suggested by the game, into the specific void.

The “urban voids” are divided into four (4) categories based on their physical characteristics i.e. wall, empty property, roof, abandoned building. For each category of void there is a total of uses that the specific void can periodically accept.

Conceptually the application of temporary or periodical uses into the voids, is wanted as this creates  urban atmosphere and gives the area the dynamic that a permanent use would possibly extinguish. The game proposes that this is possible if the players/caretakers from the different surrounding environments offer the correct tools and apply them effectively to achieve the completion of certain events requested each time by game cards.

The game ends if the players manage to successfully collaborate keeping the void safe from any permanent use or when they cannot continue in the case that the remaining tools can no longer match each other which indicates a poor strategy from their behalf on managing the void.