Worldbuilding Workshop Jam

By Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

Nov 25 /4 - 6pm / Free book a place here

Explore alternative worlds with game designer and artist David Blandy

This November, the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab is thrilled to host a special worldbuilding game jam led by artist and game designer David Blandy. In this interactive, creative workshop, we’ll assemble an Archipelago of Alterity—a constellation of speculative worlds reimagining community, technology, and the future of surviving and thriving. Drawing inspiration from OSR-style tabletop roleplaying, participants will experiment with collaborative map-making and myth-making techniques adaptable to many creative contexts: fiction and digital games, futures and foresight work, activism and advocacy.

Artwork by Daniel Locke for Eco Mofos!!

Exploring Commons: Artist talk: Saturday 22nd November / 2pm
Artist talk with David Blandy - work room at The Amelia Scott
Free, book here

In this insightful talk, artist David Blandy will share the ideas and inspirations behind Commons, his new film currently on show at The Amelia. The work explores themes of shared landscapes, memory, and mythology, drawing on the ancient woodland and striking rock formations of Tunbridge Wells Common.

David will reflect on his creative process and the significance of objects from The Amelia's heritage collection that helped shape the film's narrative. He will also explore how these objects, alongside the natural environment, inform storytelling, identity, and our connection to place.

David Blandy- Gathering Storm at Volt, Eastbourne

21st of November, 6 - 8pm

As part of the public programme, of Miguel Martin’s exhibition Up and Down, artist David Blandy will be in-conversation with Miguel before hosting Gathering Storm, a role-playing game opening a space for collective storytelling.

How to get here

VOLT
67–69 Seaside Road
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN21 3PL

The Open Road
With David Blandy, Amaal Said, and Sam Williams
Screenings and Q&A with the artists
Thursday 13 November 2025
FormaHQ, London
All welcome, RSVP

Details
18:30: Doors open
19:00 - 21:00: Screenings followed by artists' Q&A
21:00 - 22:00: drinks

Join us at FormaHQ for The Open Road, a new series of artists’ moving image works brought together for the very first time for a special screening event at FormaHQ. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, The Amelia Scott, Cement Fields, FLAMIN, Forma, and Three Rivers, The Open Road reimagines the timeless tale of a journey taken through three new moving image works by renowned artists David Blandy, Amaal Said, and Sam Williams.

Brent Biennial 25: AIR Ritual

When
17–24 October 2025

Where
University of Westminster Harrow Campus.
Watford Rd, Northwick Park Roundabout, Harrow HA1 3TP

Curated by Annie Jael Kwan

Our Shrines – David Blandy
David Blandy’s presentation incorporates ShrineShare, a project conceived and made with Malaysian artists and writers Sharon Chin and Zedeck Siew, and Our Place, No Place, a game made in collaboration with Jo Lindsey Walton where we imagine the complexities of a better future together.

Event programme: Friday 24 October

University of Westminster Harrow Campus
10:00am – 6:00pm | Print Gully zine fair Print Gully is a frenetic zine fair where nothing goes as planned. Drawing inspiration from the chaos of shopping plazas, with dangling wires, faulty plumbing, backstreets stacked with newsprint, and makeshift printing processes.

A selection of works from Print Gully Zine Fair and Brent Biennial 2025 artists will be on display in the library. 

11:00am – 12:30pm | Play Through This – Panel discussion about speculative worlding and emancipatory gaming with David Blandy and panellists 

In this discussion we will consider speculative worlding and emancipatory gaming, considering the possibilities and limits of tabletop roleplay for solidarity and societal change. David and his fellow panelists (TBC) will look at the history of gaming and resistance, covering, amongst others, the work of Avery Alder, Jay Dragon, Soul Muppet and Zedeck Siew. 

12.30pm – 1.30pm | Our Place, No Place – David Blandy gaming workshop

In this session, we will play Our Place, No Place, a game made in collaboration with Jo Lindsey Walton, we imagine the complexities of a better future together. Our Place, No Place is a tabletop role-playing game where we create a shared world, drawing a map and defining its landscapes, then step into the lives of characters who inhabit it. As we navigate a year in this imagined space, unexpected local events shape our stories and a community emerges through play. Our space, 200 years in the future, is no longer an abstract concept, but an imaginatively lived reality. The work insists that we will survive these traumas, but asks what will life then be like, in this different, sustainable, more collaborative world? No prior experience of gaming is necessary to play.

As part of David Blandy’s exhibition Commons

Guided Walk: Saturday 4th October / 10:30am / Booking essential

Join a guided walk with artist David Blandy & Research Curator, Dr Ian Beavis. Together you will weave through Tunbridge Wells Common to visit the ancient woodland and striking rock formations featured in the film.

Meet at 10:30am in the welcome lobby at The Amelia Scott, Mount Pleasant Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1AW

Monday – Friday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM / Saturday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM / Sunday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Coming by train from London: Charing Cross (58 mins), Waterloo East (54 mins) & London Bridge (49 mins) with a 10 minute walk to The Amelia Scott.

Coming by bus from Brighton: Route 29

Uneven Futures: Art, Roleplaying Games, and the Allure of the Otherwise
Queens Park Book Festival, Queen’s Park, North London

Sunday 31 August 2:30pm / Free / No booking required

Local visual artists and game designers Nick Murray and David Blandy discuss how we can imagine hopeful futures through storytelling and game play. In conversation with writer and curator Jamie Sutcliffe.

In association with Brent Biennial

Campaign
Leicester Gallery & Leicester Castle
17th May, 11am to 9pm

Join us for a day curated by Dying Earth Catalogue celebrating roleplay games through a range of talks from indie game designers and artists, housed amongst a wide range of hobby stalls at Leicester Gallery. The day will close with a series of evening game tables in the evocative setting of Leicester Castle.

To ensure access please book a free ticket for the event by emailing leicestergallery@dmu.ac.uk or feel free just to rock up on the day and you will be very welcome if we are not at capacity.

Campaign Talks will commence at midday

12pm – 1pm: Chris McDowall and Leo Hunt in conversation
2pm – 3pm: David Blandy and Rebecca Edwards interview Petra Szemán
4pm – 5pm: Jamie Sutcliffe interviews Daniel Sell (Melsonian Arts Council)
5pm – 6pm: Hugo Worthy interviews Tom Kemp

Campaign Stalls will open from 11am to 6pm
Vendors include: Strange Attractor Press, Copy/Paste co-op, Far Horizons Co-op, Leomi Sadler, Laurie O’Connel, Kayla Dice, Bastionland Press, Melsonian Arts Council, IglooTree, Patrick Stuart, John Powell-Jones, WH Arthur, Sean Smith, Soul Muppet Games, Antipode Press, Peregrine Coast Press

Game tables will open at 6.30pm
Games will hosted be at Leicester Castle ( 5 minutes walk from the gallery) including Mythic Bastionland run by Chris McDowall, Our Place, No Place run by David Blandy, Vampire the Masquerade run by James Taggart, and a special 5E one shot set in The Windswept Isle created by Toby Pauley. Sign up for these games will be open at the Campaign fair until 6pm.

Radical Care - David Blandy

Hereford College of Arts / MeadowArts

Date: 15th May 2025

Time: 18:00 - 19:30

Location: College Road Campuss

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Social Cinema present Imperfect Futures  

Science Gallery, London
Theatre | 6.45pm -9.15 pm 

Sit back and experience visionary short documentaries and artist's films  [themed around landscape, climate, science and technology] curated by The Social Cinema London. The programme reflects upon what has been lost, what we can still change, and what our distant futures might hold. 

Part of Friday Late: Beautiful Futures
Science Gallery, London

• Friday 25 April 2025

• 18:30 21:30

• Science Gallery London Great Maze Pond London, England, SE1 United Kingdom (map)

Choose Your Own Adventure

Marking the closing weekend of Art Plays Games, an exhibition of games created by artists and independent developers, we’ll consider the implications of encouraging audience agency within artworks and how artists rethink control, gamification, and decision-making processes.

FACT Liverpool
88 Wood Street
L1 4DQ

Studio/Lab

This symposium brings together a diverse group of artists, performers, game designers, critical thinkers, and industry professionals to explore the compelling storytelling potential of games. Players include Babeworld, Babak Ahteshamipour, David Blandy, Jeremy Chen, Aleena Chia, Marijam Didžgalvytė, Anne Duffau, Jon Edgley, Zein Majali and Jazmin Morris.

Immersing in Alternative Futures Event, April 16th, 2pm: 

David Blandy’s Our Place, No Place

Come and join us for the first in a series of Immersing in Alternative Futures. Artist David Blandy will be running his new game: Our Place, No Place at the University of Sussex.

Step into the world of Our Place, No Place, a tabletop role-playing game by David Blandy, (in collaboration with Jo Lindsey Walton), where we imagine the complexities of a better future together. In this collaborative experience, we create a shared world by drawing a map and defining its landscapes, then step into the lives of characters who inhabit it. As we navigate a year in this imagined space, unexpected local events will shape our story and a community will emerge through play. The game was originally commissioned for Brent Biennial by curator Annie Jael Kwan.

Book your place now:

Date & time: Thursday 27th of March

18-19 artist talk 
19-21 ttrpg session

Location: NKF, Malongen, Nytorget 15 A, Stockholm. 

Join Konstfrämjandet Stockholm @konstframjandetstockholm in collaboration with NKF @nkf_sweden and David Blandy for an evening delving into the possibilities of table top role play gaming, thinking about challenging dominant narratives, and inspiring real-world change. Blandy will introduce Gathering Storm, a game reimagining colonial food production in a sci-fi world, and Diachronic, a time-traveling Tarot adventure to preserve lost histories. 

Weird Hope Engines: Critical Hits Zine Fair
Saturday 22nd March / 11am-5pm
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

As we approach the launch of Weird Hope Engines at Bonington gallery, curated by David Blandy, Rebecca Edwards and Jamie Sutcliffe, under their new art games research moniker Dying Earth Catalogue, we're happy to announce a day of talks, tables, and screenings celebrating the cultures of tabletop roleplaying games.

Book your free ticket and join us at Bonington Gallery for the Critical Hits Zine Fair.

Marking the launch of our next exhibition Weird Hope Engines(22 March – 10 May) this event celebrates DIY publishing and tabletop gaming with vendors from Nottingham and around the UK including Melsonian Arts Council, Copy/Paste Co-op, Warp Miniatures, Ramshackle Games and others. Critical Hits Zine Fair brings together independent publishers, artists, and writers exploring themes of critical worlding, resistance, and alternative futures.

Alongside a diverse range of zines and collectables to purchase, the Fair also features a programme of talks and conversations with artists from the exhibition including Zedeck Siew and Angela Washko, and panel discussions on fantasy illustration, game design and miniature fabrication with Andrew Walter, Amanda Lee Franck, Scrap World, and Alex Huntley.

Critical Hits Zine Fair also features gaming sessions with David Blandy, Angela Washko and Andrew Walter, as well as a film screening programme delving further into the narratives, aesthetics, and communities that shape these immersive worlds, including the documentaries World of Darkness (2017) and Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons(2019).

Image: Still from the film World of Darkness, 2017

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"Diachronic" – A Creative Collaboration
Wednesday 12 March, 6 – 7.30pm

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
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Join us for an in conversation around artist @david_blandy_'s project "Diachronic”, a creative collaboration between John Hansard Gallery and @canakkalebienal, Turkey. With David Blandy, Çanakkale Biennial Curators Deniz Erbaş and Ulrika Flink, and Founding Director Seyhan Boztepe.
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“Diachronic” is a TTRPG (tabletop role-playing game) that was commissioned for the 9th Çanakkale Biennial, 4 October – 11 November 2024, in collaboration with John Hansard Gallery and with support from the British Council’s Creative Collaboration Grant. Extending from David Blandy's exhibition Atomic Light at John Hansard Gallery in 2023, “Diachronic” continues his interest in imagining new worlds and societal systems collaboratively.
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There will also be the opportunity to hear more about the history of the Biennial, its context, and its wider activities. This event has been made possible with the support of British Council Creative Collaborations Programme.
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The event will be in English with Turkish translation.

@turkeybritishcouncil @ulrikaflink @deniz.erbas @seyhanboztepe @troyexcavations @troiavakfi @troyamuzesi @britishcouncil

Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network

AHA EVENT #19 : David Blandy | Other Worlds Workshop

Wednesday 26th February 14:00 - 17:00

Join us for ‘Other Worlds’, a workshop exploring archives, archaeology, sites and ideas through tabletop roleplay techniques. David Blandy will guide us through his use of worlding, speculative fiction and games in his artistic practice.

The workshop is free and open to all, No experience with table top gaming necessary. Refreshments will be provided.

To register for the workshop please email: nastassja.simensky.20@ucl.ac.uk

Address:

Slade Art Research Centre
Woburn Square
London

WC1H 0AB

Location:
Google Maps / What 3 words

LA Filmforum / PST Art Screening Series:
Experimentations: Imag(in)ing Knowledge in Film
Science of the Word

Science of the Word
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
7:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057 (map)
www.2220arts.org

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Science of the Word

Aimé Césaire, the late writer, politician, and co-founder of the Négritude movement, proposed a new hybrid science in 1946 — a science of the Word. He argued that the study of the Word (mythoi, a poetics of knowledge) will condition the study of nature (bios). Philosopher Sylvia Wynter, inspired by Césaire’s idea, stated that humans must now collectively undertake a rewriting of knowledge as we have known and understood it. Can science deal with and make sense of the human predicament, as Wynter calls it? How can scholars, artists, scientists, and the general public reconcile the tension between scientific and technological advancement, the earth-centered mandate of indigenous wisdom, and righting historical legacies colonial violence?  

Curated by Jheanelle Brown.

Film Screening: Erin Espelie, Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil& Jackson Polys, Mariam Ghani, Laura Huertas Millán, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy

LA Film Forum

PST ART: Art & Science Collide

Kadeem Oak: Pressed Flowers of the Empire

Screening Room: South Wing
Thu 06 Feb 2025

18.45 - 20.45

£5 Book Tickets here

Part of Somerset House Studios

Artist and filmmaker Kadeem Oak explores the colonial legacies of Britain’s botanical collections.

Featuring: Black Audio Film Collective, Kew and Me, The Work of Kew Gardens, David Blandy, Lamin Fofana, Jonn Gale

Reflecting Oak’s ongoing research into ecology, migration and the Caribbean, the screening focuses on the botanical garden as a form of living archive. Oak invites critical conversation around Britain’s imperial institutions, drawing on material connected to Kew Gardens. The screening considers the mediation of monuments and archives and how their colonial logics might be disrupted through contemporary intervention.

Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network (AHA) EVENT

David Blandy | ‘Other Worlds’ Event #18
Online talk
Wednesday 29 January, 16:30 - 18:00

This talk will explore the potential for exploring archives, sites and ideas through tabletop roleplay techniques. David Blandy will talk through his use of worlding, speculative fiction and games in his artistic practice, and the collaborative creation of works such as The World After and Lost Eons.

This talk is free and open to all. We will be hosting the event via zoom.

Please register HERE

There will be an in person workshop connected to this talk on Wednesday 26th February in London. To register for the workshop please email: nastassja.simensky.20@ucl.ac.uk

The Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network examines the varied ways in which archaeology, heritage and art converge across a broad range of concepts and practices, from artistic interventions in the museum space to archaeological interpretations which deploy and take inspiration from contemporary art.