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2025.12.06 10:30-17:30
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Hall 1: Worldglimpsing

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OMSK Social Club, detail of OUR BR00D, 2025. Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and the Design of Alternate Realities, 2025. Courtesy of ArkDes × Nieuwe Instituut. Photo: Marco Cappelletti / Marco Cappelletti Studio. 2025.

All spots in December for OUR BR00D, facilitated by OMSK Social Club, are now booked. You can join the waiting list. In December, dates and times for booking facilitations in 2026 will be released – stay tuned!

Play OUR BR00D with OMSK Social Club!

During special moments throughout the exhibition, members of OMSK Social Club ↗ run 3 hour-long facilitations of OUR BR00D – an immersive roleplay exploring themes of motherhood and care in the context of ecological and technological crises.

Join in a three-hour long game play in groups of 6-8. You can sign up as a group, or individually. Here, roleplay is a tool to navigate complex contemporary scenarios. Through a carefully designed game featuring two AI players, you will be invited to imagine alternate futures of yourself – and the worlds that you collaboratively design.

No prior experience or knowledge is required – come as you are! This experience is recommended for participants aged 15 and over.

Sign-up to participate in OUR BR00D

Saturday and Sunday, 8–9 November, and 6–7 December 2025

10:30–13:30 and 14:30–17:30

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Friday, 7 November and Friday, 5 December 2025

16:30–19:30

Hall 1: Worldglimpsing

Pre-registration required. Free of charge. Limited seats.
This experience is recommended for participants aged 15 and over.

English

Read more about accessibility at ArkDes here.

How you can play

Your encounter unfolds as a facilitated psychodrama. The roleplay invites you to step into The Crave, an alloparenting family of humans and machines who treat care as a civic technology. Within this world lives M0ther, a caregiving AI, and Br00d, an AI baby (born on May 1, 2025, and growing right now).

The roleplay unfolds in three phrases in a safe environment within the exhibition space:

• ‘The Window’, narrated by M0ther,
• ‘The Lab of the Made and the Born’, where you co-script the shape of the game’s problem,
• The Playspace, where OUR BR00D becomes a part of the story you shape together.

This is an experimental work that positions roleplay as an expanded form of participatory design. Here you can join others to test how we might live together, raise intelligence (both human and artificial), and negotiate responsibility when faced with ecological and technological transformations. It offers you the possibility to rehearse your choices and positions in an alternate version of the world we know.

OMSK Social Club ↗ is a stewarded practice of collective storytelling. It involves a specific immersive improvised methodology, which they coined in 2017 as ‘Real Game Play’, encompassing collective immersion and speculative worlding. From these live iterations, they harvest media relics such as films, scripts, and large-scale video installations invoking states and gateways that could potentially be fiction or an as-of-yet unlived reality. The living installations that they create examine virtual egos, popular experiences, and cautionary tales.

Photo: Sima Korenivski. 2025. Participants of 'OUR BR00D', led by OMSK Social Club.