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                29 August - 1 September 2022

                Footnotes:                 Annotating the Future of Arts Education is a workshop, conference, and role-playing game unfurling in a speculative scenario set in 2045. It will take place from August 29 to September 1 at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is organized by School of Commons and 0ct0p0s. Participants will assume a character to design and research future realities for arts education. No prior experience in role-playing is needed.




                Online
                Blend&Bleed - Online Symposium on Transreality & Pervasive Play The series of online workshops conjures synergies between the fields of performance, larp, game design and media theory. The common inquiry will be the phenomenon of 'bleed', wherein the boundaries between fiction and reality, the virtual and physical world dissolve.  with Simon Asencio, Francis Patrick Brady, Reed Berkowitz, Omsk Social Club, Brody Condon, Nina Essendrop, Ashley Ferro-Murray, The Interactions, Dorota Gawęda & Egle Kulbokaite, Rilla Khaled, Nick Koppenhagen, Martina Leeker, Isabel Lewis, Vinicius Marquet, Susan Ploet , Rebecca Rouse, Ju Row-Farr, Hito Steyerl, Trakal, Rozan van Klaveren & McKenzie Wark.Curation: Carina Erdmann

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                14th of June at Haus der Statistik, Berlin
                Workbuilding a Worldbuidling workshop and exhibition on who and what works.





                12th of Februar 2022 
                Buried Accomplices is an online LARP that lets you reflect on your present through the lens of historic imaginaries of the future as well as speculative future visions onto the past.
                Image: Deep fried meme template uploaded by an Imgflip user, Fonts by Floriane Rousselot



                ABYSM Accomplices is a hybrid game that combines methodologies from Role Play and Computer Game Design, Therapy and Performance Improvisation set in a state of connected Hypnagogia.
                Image: Dawid Grzesinski & Nikolas Brummer, UI: Marijn Degenaar, Font by Sophia Brinkgerd








                1st of November 2021
                Weekley sharing of dream starting again on DreamXchange discord channel. Every Monday 19h CET.
                Image: Fragment of The Dream of Saint Joseph, Georges de La Tour, 1628 - 1645; Font by Hyunjun Jang









                Where the unborn conspire Worlding workshop for more than one voice* with School of Commons at Shedhalle Protozone 4 + online.
                Image: Design by Marijn Degenaar
















                20th of November 2021
                Distant Bodies and Accomplices                 an online game that uses the theatre as its map. Prototype presented at IMPACT FESTIVAL, Théâtre de Liège .
                Image: Design by Marijn Degenaar














                Ongoing
                Conspiratorial Bleed                 Remote and Embodied Worldbuilding Workshops with School of Commons.













                Winter 2021 TBA 
                Accomplices Bleed                 Online Role Play by Nick Koppenhagen and Carina Erdmann hosted at Omsk Social Clubs’s discord channel.