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Exploring Speculative Futures workshop

ITPMA - Interactive Technologies for Performing and Media Arts

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Thu, 07 Aug, 2025 at 02:00 pm

CINETic UNATC

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Thu, 07 Aug, 2025 at 02:00 pm - Sat, 09 Aug, 2025 at 03:00 pm (EEST)

CINETic UNATC

Noroc, București, România, Bucharest, Romania

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Exploring Speculative Futures workshop
Cum proiectăm spații nu doar pentru a spune „o poveste”, ci pentru a permite existența simultană a mai multor povești și experiențe comune? Ce-ar fi dacă, în loc de impunere, am încuraja negocierea? Poveștile au fost mereu o practică esențială prin care ne-am înțeles prezentul, trecutul și viitorul comun. Totuși, noile tehnologii au deschis un spațiu pentru noi practici culturale care permit interacțiunea și negocierea, pentru a înțelege lumea prin experiențe comune dar nealiniate. Putem folosi aceste practici noi pentru a proiecta spații care încurajează explorarea și speculația asupra unui viitor comun prin angajare socială, care ne permite să trăim un prezent împărtășit.

Descrierea workshopului:
Pe parcursul unui workshop de 3 zile, participanții vor primi o introducere în designul și practica performance-urilor interactive și a situațiilor pentru negociere socială. Vom explora bune practici tehnice și artistice, precum și perspective teoretice care oferă un vocabular util în conturarea și proiectarea unor spații cu adevărat interactive.

Participanții vor prototipa scenarii interactive speculative, având ocazia să includă computing fizic (Arduino, Processing), Twine și Unity, precum și abilități de crafting și scriere creativă.
Ne așteptăm la 8-12 participanți, interesați de artele spectacolului, arhitectură, design și tehnologii interactive. Participarea este gratuită, prin înregistrare aici: https://forms.gle/HN14QfvjkBcp77vj8

Workshopul marchează 8 ani de existență a programului de master ITPMA de la UNATC și este o ocazie de a afla mai multe despre program și procesul de admitere pentru 2025. Participarea potențialilor candidați la masterele ITPMA sau AGD în cadrul workshopului va fi prioritară.
Puteți afla mai multe despre procesul de admitere aici: https://admitere.unatc.ro/tehnologii-interactive-pentru-arte-performative-si-media/
https://admitere.unatc.ro/arta-designului-de-jocuri/
Perioada de înscriere pentru admitere este între 4 august și 9 septembrie.

**Condiții de participare:** în afară de curiozitatea intelectuală și deschiderea spre experiment, NU SUNT NECESARE COMPETENȚE ANTERIOARE. Totuși, sunt binevenite abilități și interese în computing fizic, scenografie, Unity3D, actorie, scriere creativă și/sau design interactiv.
Participanții sunt rugați să aducă propriile laptopuri cu aplicațiile preferate de design deja instalate.

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Keywords:
#art&technology #theater #art #design #interactive-technology #gamedesign

How do we design spaces not just for telling “a story”, but for allowing multiple stories and shared experiences to exist simultaneously? What if, instead of persuasion, we would encourage negotiation? Stories have been a prime practice of making sense of our shared present, past and future. Yet new technologies have opened up a space for new cultural practices allowing for interaction and negotiation, for shared yet unaligned experience as sense-making. We can use these new practices to design spaces that encourage exploration and speculation of our shared future through social engagement that lets us experience a shared present.

Workshop description:
Over a 3-day workshop participants will get an introduction into the design and practice of division interactive performances and situations for social negotiation. We will explore technical and artistic best practices as well as theoretical lenses that provide a dictionary of terms to help in shape and design truly interactive spaces.

Participants will prototype speculative interactive scenarios, with the opportunity to involve physical computing (Arduino, Processing), twine and Unity, as well as their crafting and writing skills.
We expect around 8-12 participants with interest ranging from performing arts, architecture, design and interactive technologies. Participation is free of charge by registering here: https://forms.gle/HN14QfvjkBcp77vj8

The workshop marks 8 years of the ITPMA MA Program at UNATC and is an occasion to find out more about the program and the admission process for 2025. Participation of potential candidates to the ITPMA or AGD MA in the workshop will be prioritized. You can find out more about the admission process here: https://admitere.unatc.ro/tehnologii-interactive-pentru-arte-performative-si-media/
https://admitere.unatc.ro/arta-designului-de-jocuri/
Registration for admission is between 4 August and 9 September.

**Pre-requisites:** apart from intellectual curiosity and the openness to experiment NO PRIOR SKILLS ARE REQUIRED, yet contributing skills and interest in physical computing, stage design, unity3D, acting, creative writing and/or interaction design is encouraged.
Participants are kindly asked to bring their own laptops with their favourite design applications already installed.

Workshop structure:
Thursday, 07.08.25 - 14:00 Welcome and Introduction.
14:30 Lecture: Input Session: Designing for Agency
- Projects and Concepts
15:30 short Pause
15:45 Sketching conflict and negotiation - a method
17:30 wrap-up and outlook for friday
18:00 end of day 1

Friday, 08.08.25 - 10:00 Warmup and splitting into groups
10:30 Ideation
11:00 short Pause
11:15 Concepting
12:30 lunch break
13:30 ITPMA input lecture
14:00 Idea presentations and feedback
14:30 Theory Input - Situations, Technology and Negotiation
15:30 coffee break
16:00 project work

Saturday 09.08.25 - 10:00 Project Setup
11:30 Presentations - 30 minutes/group, three groups
13:30 lunch break
14:30 outlook and feedback
15:00 end of workshop

Bio:
Friedrich Kirschner is a visual artist and software developer. He uses social interaction and code as an artistic framework for participatory theater, speculative world building and videogames.
His work has been presented at numerous international new media festivals and exhibitions, including the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Laboral in Gijon, the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York and the Seoul Media Art Biennale, as well as in theaters like the HAU Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Eyebeam New York, Teater Nordkraft in Aalborg and more.
He was Professor for digital media at HfS Ernst Busch in Berlin from 2012 to 2024 where he founded the MA program Spiel und Objekt. His recent work in video-games was nominated for the German Video Games Award and awarded a special mention at the Animated Games Award at Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart.



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Thu, 07 Aug, 2025 at 02:00 pm