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WORKSHOP by Harold Hejazi: Reprogramming Public Spaces through Multiplayer Gameplay

📅 Thursday, December 4, 10:00 – 12:00  & 13:00 – 16:00

📍 Aalto University, Marsio Building, Otakaari 2, Espoo

Experimental Studio 1 (Room 3430), 3rd floor

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ABOUT the workshop

Welcome to a reprogrammed classroom – part workshop and part playable exhibition. Participants are invited into the artistic practice of Harold Hejazi, where games and performance meet as tools for participation and belonging. Together we will explore the wide world of multiplayer party and conversation games. Do they enhance social connection and community? Could they serve as performance or art? Through a curated series of short playtests, discussion, and reflection, we will investigate what happens between people during play. From digital titles like Jackbox Party and What The Dub?! to analog games like Wavelength and The Mind, participants will experiment and ask how multiplayer games might reprogram public space. 

No gaming experience required. Bring a mobile device or laptop, and any favourite multiplayer games you wish to share.

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ABOUT the artist

Harold Hejazi is a Canadian artist and game designer based in Helsinki. With a background in art education, theatre, and game development, he explores new forms of public involvement in the arts. Blending live performance, interactive storytelling, and game mechanics, Harold creates playful participatory experiences that challenge institutional and social norms. Using museums, public spaces, and digital environments as theatrical stages, he engages audiences in dynamic, improvisational encounters.

His current performance practice uses video games to address themes of race and marginalisation and to reflect on our evolving relationship with non-human worlds. Whether designing projects for a museum or theatre, Harold is always interested in how games may enhance how we learn, connect, and tell stories.

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The workshop is hosted by M-Cult and organised in collaboration with Aalto University and Aalto Media Lab.

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The address for the Marsio building is Otakaari 2, 02150 Espoo, Finland. 
Approximately 150m from Aalto University metro station.

  • Accessible parking available ~20 m from the main entrance (Otakaari 1).

  • The space is wheelchair accessible and equipped with an elevator.

  • An accessible toilet is located on the same floor as the workshop venue.

  • The studio requires Aalto University keycard access. Visitors may request assistance from personnel at the Marsio Building front desk.

  • More information: https://www.aalto.fi/fi/toimipisteet/marsio

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