The Para-Real Safari Series
You're invited the Para-Real Safari Series. Over three events in Fall and Winter, join the livestream or participate directly in a playful exploration of the Para-Real that will widen your understanding of the potential available in immersive digital spaces.
Despite a year of relentless corporate-driven hype, the "metaverse" remains sterile and lifeless. With almost unlimited resources at their disposal, the body-horrors proposed by big tech has already narrowed the Overton window in a anti-user direction and influenced our ability to imagine new possibilities.
There is something deeply sinister about how big tech companies understand the aesthetics of bodies and no more is that apparent than when they dabble in AR/VR pic.twitter.com/1BVfSlacXD
— Cade (@helveticade) May 26, 2021
Away from the slick tech demos and crypto-hijacked attempts at 'lore-building' is a chaotic Para-Real culture of art, satire, immersive play and exploration of identity. In three Para-Real Safaris, New Design Congress, C/O Digital and participants will explore what is possible today in spaces that are designed and assembled through a shared commitment to social interaction, expressiveness and play in the Para-Real.
Event details
There are three Expeditions between September and November. Find more details about them and RSVP here.