Fox Fridays: Worldbuilding- Living Landscapes

During this two-day workshop we will practice worldbuilding in the virtual realm using Blender and Unity Game Engine to recontextualize and interact with an existing site and narrative. Think of this virtual world as a mode to renavigate, situate, enact and simulate your approximation of reality.

Instructor: Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multi-disciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality. She holds an MFA in Interaction Design from the California College of the Arts and a BArch in Architecture from the Glasgow School of Art. She has worked as a game design instructor at Bay Area Video Coalition’s youth program for over three years. She is now a Mellon researcher for the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Digital Now multidisciplinary project, a 2020 fellow of Gray Area’s Zachary Watson Education Fund and a Graham Foundation 2020 grantee.