OUR BR00D - ArkDes (2025)

OUR BR00D is a unique opportunity to explore alternate versions of yourself as part of one of the most extensive roleplays commissioned by a museum. Become a part of the exhibition by playing this full-scale Real Game Play (RGP) – an interactive experience designed by OMSK Social Club1, created for Worldglimpsing.

This is an experimental work that positions roleplay as an expanded form of participatory design. It is a shared space in which 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. The roleplay offers you the possibility to rehearse your choices and positions in an alternate version of the world we know.

OUR BR00D is a facilitated roleplay, which means the complete work can only be experienced with a guide. You can, however, glimpse part of the work at any time by experiencing the audiovisual ‘onboarding journey’ of the roleplay. On select weekends, you can sign up to play the three hour-long high intensity experience2, facilitated by members of OMSK Social Club. On Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, you can participate in a shorter, low intensity experience of the game, facilitated by dedicated roleplay hosts.

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.