World 43, Exploration B

Swap Shop Hub poster.

In World 43, blue clothes, which can no longer be sold, are traded at community hubs.

This Exploration was contributed by Lily Reed, Abbie Shelton, Warintira Suwanvanichkul and Erin Rossiter (located in the UK, Cyprus and Thailand), developed from a World contributed by Amy Twigger Holroyd, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.

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