Games and Worldmaking (Damjan Jovanovic)

As a part of the “Open Feedback Loop” series, the talk by Damjan Jovanovic will present a number of his ongoing projects that explore themes such as personhood, ecology and artificial intelligence, and how their entanglement with simulations and video games brings about new ways of worldmaking.

Damjan is an architect, educator and software designer. He works as a Full-Time faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Damjan’s work centers on the development of experimental software, and his interests lie in investigating the culture and aesthetics of software platforms, as well as questions of contemporary design education, authorship and creativity.

” In my reading, Worldmaking is Design in the expanded sense. The term ‘Worldmaking’ comes from Nelson Goodman’s book called ‘Ways of Worldmaking’. What happens with design when architectural space is virtualized and managed by Content platforms and mixed reality, AI and automation, sensing and ambient computing? I think we need a new, expanded toolkit for design, and this website is my attempt to face this problem.I also think that, while we have an endless supply of theories that seek to read and interpret the world, we have almost no new theories of how to design new ones. I believe that design has a deep obligation to remain a practice informed by history while looking at the future, and remain relevant as a practice of Cosmology.” [Damjan Jovanovic]

                        https://worldmaking.xyz/             https://lifeforms.io/            http://sciarc.edu/            https://dmjn.net/