Plapparlament

Workshop by Anna-Luise Lorenz

Together with the speculative designer and artist Anna-Luise Lorenz the participants of the Plapparlament workshop created virtual parliaments in three-dimensional spaces using the software Mozilla Hubs, Spoke and Blender. After looking at different types of existing parliaments in our world, they discussed how spaces affect processes of decision making: how does architecture and design in analogue and virtual spaces encourage us to raise our voice or deter us from participation. As a next step, different teams designed their own virtual spaces that allowed for different topics to be discussed. The themes they addressed were meat consumption, the school system, climate change, toxic waste in the global waters or how the oceans are being abused for massive transportation. 

The resulting projects were presented to families and friends at the Infocafé in Neu-Isenburg. They were invited to join the hybrid tour through the different virtual parliaments by scanning QR codes placed on a big poster that showed the different parliaments’ ground plans. In doing so, the visitors of the exhibition learned which topics – climate change, consumerism, school system etc. – participants dealt with and how they presented them through the virtual worlds they designed.