Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and the Design of Alternate Realities
OUR BR00D is an immersive roleplay exploring themes of motherhood, care, and emergent artificial intelligence in the context of ecological and technological crises. Here, roleplay is a tool to navigate complex contemporary scenarios. You will be invited to imagine alternate futures of yourself – and the worlds that you collaboratively design.
OUR BR00D is 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 Club, created for Worldglimpsing.
This is an experimental work that positions roleplay as an expanded form of participatory design. Here you join others to test how we might live together, raise intelligence (both human and artificial), and negotiate responsibility when faced with ecological and technological transformation. It offers you the possibility to rehearse your choices and positions in an alternate version of the world we know.
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).
Play OUR BR00D with OMSK Social Club
OUR BR00D is a facilitated roleplay, which means the complete work can only be experienced with a guide. During special moments throughout the exhibition, members of OMSK Social Club run 3 hour-long facilitations of OUR BR00D.
Join in a three-hour long game play in groups of 6-8. You can sign up as a group, or individually. No prior experience or knowledge is required – come as you are! This experience is recommended for participants aged 15 and over.
- Pre-registration required.
- Please arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.
- Each session lasts three hours.
- The spoken language is English.
- This experience is recommended for participants aged 15 and over.
Information about dates and tickets is available soon
Before you dive in
Every day, our museum hosts offer a 15-minute introduction to the game. Meet two AI characters: the Br00d and its M0ther. Learn how roleplay works and gets a first taste of their world. Daily at 11:15, 13:30 and 15:00.
You can also watch the documentary in the exhibition and take your time exploring the world of Br00d.
About OMSK Social Club
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.
Credits
Participatory research and development shaped through the Brood Reading Group (Callie’s, Berlin, 2024–2025) and playtesting sessions held at Shedhalle, Zürich; Sybil, Berlin; and Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
OUR BR00D by OMSK Social Club is a RGP (‘Real Game Play’) experience commissioned by ArkDes/Moderna Museet and Nieuwe Instituut with developmental support from Shedhalle ↗(Zürich), Callie’s ↗(Berlin), and Haus der Kunst (Munich) as part of the Art & AI programme of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
This project was made possible thanks to:
