Worlds at Play

Imagine playing with the very rules of reality. What worlds could you build?

Place

OKP-Schwanzer-Trakt

Ground floor, Studio
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 WienOpen in maps +

Department

Design Investigations

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Head of Department: Anab Jain
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Design Investigations presents Worlds at Play: an exhibition where our multimodal games craft alternatives to our status quo. We create cooperative play that invites new democratic principles, questions identity politics, and even rescues street chewing gum. We experiment with materials both physical and technological, building AI cameras that challenge determinism, installations that reveal data archives' vulnerability to heat, and climate actions that emerge from collective imagination. Come and see how we design questions and explore new realities through critical play.

Anab Jain with students and the team of Design Investigations (Friedrich Schadow, Martin Grödl, Matthias Pfeffer, Nikolas Heep, Stefan Zinell)

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