About this Event
To kick off our Worldbuild project, Alice Bucknell, Artist and Faculty member of UCLA and SCI-Arc, will be joining us on 11/02 to share and discuss their work in worldbuilding and narrative design.
The event will be held onsite at Central Saint Martins for UAL students & staff only.
External attendees can watch the event broadcast live on YouTube.
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About the speaker:
Alice Bucknell is an artist, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and forms of knowledge. Bucknell is interested in the ecological dimensions of play as an embodied technology that dissolves binaries between human and nonhuman, natural and synthetic intelligence, and self vs world. They have exhibited internationally, including at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthalle Praha (Prague), Ars Electronica (Linz), transmediale (Berlin), Arcade Seoul, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Singapore Art Museum and Serpentine Galleries (London). In 2025 their video game The Alluvials was acquired by SFMOMA in San Francisco, making it the first video game to enter the museum’s permanent collection. A recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital Award and former CERN/CC resident, they teach world-building, game design and the philosophies of technology at SCI-Arc and UCLA (Los Angeles).
Sitraka Rakotoniaina is an independent artist and designer with a keen interest in speculative design and world-building. Their practice revolves around the use of designed objects, artifacts, rituals, and various 'things' to construct narratives that aim to provoke, imagine, and engage. Using design as an investigative tool, Sitraka critically examines and challenges prevailing socio-technical imaginaries while forging new connections between individuals and technology.
Sitraka's work is also characterised by its eclectic nature, embracing a methodological openness that transcends specific frameworks, crafts, or predetermined aesthetics. Since 2015, Sitraka has been running a public facing research endeavour called Very Very Far Away (VVFA), which strives to democratise future narratives that are often portrayed as monocultural constructs in dire need of diversity and reimagining.
With a particular focus on space exploration and extended time horizons as narrative devices, VVFA employs world-building as a means to collectively and critically reflect upon our present realities. Through fiction, we uncover hidden prejudices and attitudes that shape our current worldview.
Currently, Sitraka is a doctoral candidate at the University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins, where their research centres around the production of speculative cosmologies and the design of simulations as critical design practices, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial imaginaries and their influence on design and cosmological narratives.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
