In ‘When Reality Becomes like a Game’ all chapters of Playbour City Engines come together during an interactive lecture by Tereza Ruller from designer duo The Rodina. Tereza will unwrap scenarios behind her artistic inquiry concerning play and labour and share her ongoing fascination on how play and work have become merged in a never-ending shift and how work became gamified. Tereza will also take the public on a tour through the virtual worlds built for the Playbour City Engines exhibition for Tetem.

With Playbour City Engines, The Rodina explores the fusion between ‘play’ and ‘labour’ and the question of how we can build connectivity and community through digital platforms. As society evolved from an industrial to an information one, play and labour have been transformed. This change has been accelerated by digital technologies. Layers of digital information, images and videos are superimposed over the physical world, blending the physical and virtual worlds together. We have never been exposed to such a range of sensory information – visual effects, sounds and mixtures of physical and digital artefacts – as we have been today. Neither have our minds been put to a test to distinguish between what is real and unreal. What’s happening when our behaviour and interactions are producing data all the time? What role do gamification and human desire play in the way we interact with digital technologies?

The interactive lecture on 23 February will take place live on Zoom.
The session will be recorded and be part of the digital environment of Playbour City Engines.
Registration is not necessary.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84598726131

Read more about The Rodina’s research in our blog Play in Information Society and try out the virtual playgrounds yourself via playbour.tetem.nl.