Dates
28.09.2025 / 14:00 |
Information
Schools of Transmutation
A speculative fiction game about sustainable futures.
What if animals were paid for their work? What if artificial intelligence belonged to the users? And what would fashion look like if nothing were thrown away?
While sustainability is often reduced to pragmatic solutions, the speculative fiction game “Her Shadow Resources” focuses on imagination. The participants invent wonders that change the future of a neighborhood. Using methods of experimental pen-and-paper role-playing games, they reflect on what other ways of living together they can imagine. As they tell stories together and plans fail, the players experience how a world unfolds unexpectedly through the interplay of diverse perspectives.
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By and with: Tilman Aumüller & Christopher Krause
Production: Tilman Aumüller, Christopher Krause
Artistic Producers: take the money and run GbR
With thanks all game testers, as well as the Frankfurt Recycling Center and the second-hand department store Neufundland (GWR gGmbH) for the material donations, which, in the spirit of a circular economy, contribute to climate-friendly production.
Funded by the program Zero – Climate-Neutral Arts and Culture Projects of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. With the kind support of the Friends of Mousonturm e.V.
Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, the Hessian Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture and the Naspa Foundation.
Supported by the Czech-German Future Fund.
Duration: 3 hours
Language: English
Audience participation
Tilman Aumüller and Christopher Krause have been combining playful fiction with discourse in their work for many years. As members of the artist collective ScriptedReality, they have realized numerous performance projects. Since 2022, together with other artists, they have been exploring experimental role-playing games and collective forms of pretending in the project “The Club of What If.” Their games – most recently “Artificial Stupidity as a Creative Opportunity” (PAD Festival in Wiesbaden) – focus on speculative scenarios and collaborative storytelling. Tilman Aumüller and Christopher Krause live in Offenbach.
photo: Tilman Aumüller