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17:00 CEST

Gameplay, Culture, Vision: The Italian Way To Meaningful Design

Friday May 16, 2025 17:00 - 17:45 CEST

Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]

At the invitation of the Italian Cultural Institute Berlin, a panel with artists from Italy will take place to shed light on new creative developments and trends in indie and arthouse gaming. The panel will address the topic of meaningful design: how can expressive needs, artistic visions, storytelling and gameplay be combined to create interactive experiences that are meaningful and engaging from both a cultural and entertainment perspective?

Moderators

Davide Mancini

IIDEA

Davide Mancini is the Developer Relations Manager at IIDEA, the Italian video games industry trade association, where he oversees relationships with Italian developers and related programmes. He is also the Artistic Director of the Italian Video Game Awards, the event celebrating... Read More →

Artists

Claudia Molinari

We are Müesli

We Are Muesli is an independent and unconventional game development studio founded in 2013 and based in Milan, Italy. Known for their award winning art and narrative projects rooted in culture and history, the studio’s previous works include the multi award winning Visual Novels... Read More →

Lorenzo Redaelli

Santa Ragione

Lorenzo Redaelli, known as EYEGUYS, is a video game and music artist from Milan. In 2023, he won the Excellence in Narrative award at the San Francisco Indipendent Games Festival for the visual novel Mediterranea Inferno.

Maddalena Grattarola

Space Backyard

Maddalena Grattarola is Senior Lecturer at London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) and Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She teaches Contextual and Theoretical Studies of Games Design and Interactive Narrative & Digital Storytelling. Narrative... Read More →

Friday May 16, 2025 17:00 - 17:45 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany

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