Worlds in Play

Event description

  • Academic events
  • Arts and entertainment
  • Professional and career development

Worlds in Play is a five-day gathering of play practitioners — game and theatre artists — exploring new forms of agency in storytelling and experience. Visit worldsinplay.com to learn more.

Workshops

January 3 - 5 | 3 days of deep dive sessions

Choose-your-own-adventure through deep-dive workshops! A special invitation to all hardcore play practitioners and newcomers alike. Step into the artist’s studio as they develop new participatory work, and play a role in the making-of. Dive into intensives on creating experiences with agency at the center!

Summit

January 6 - 7 | weekend festival & conference

40+ participatory sessions throughout Saturday & Sunday celebrates a kaleidoscopic community of practitioners, researchers, producers, and entrepreneurs across game, theatre, and other immersive fields. Sessions include immersive performances, transmedia installations, games for solo players & games for hundreds of players, to killer parties and life-changing rituals.

Participation

Public participation is open to all practitioners exploring agency in storytelling and experience, including and beyond artists, producers, technologists and researchers. Participants are invited to select between:

  • Full Gathering Registration
  • Summit Only Pass
  • Workshops Only Pass

Event contact

worldsinplay@asu.edu
Date

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

January 3-5, Workshops
January 6-7, Summit

Time

9 a.m.10 p.m. (MST)

Location

ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center

Cost

Free - $400