STOP PRESS Last minute places workshop - Unity, AI and Role playing platform

This is a last-minute opportunity for a small number of Immersive Liverpool Members to engage with an artist led new approach to imaginative storytelling and speculative futures creation using a game engine and AI chatbots and collaborative role playing. Some spaces have opened up for a really interesting and fun workshop we are holding with our partners Abandon Normal Devices, Lancaster University and Manchester Met (details below).

We are looking for up to 5 people from the Immersive Liverpool community to join our team and invited researchers to help us engage in and feedback on a new platform for storytelling.

Led by creative studio BRiGHTBLACK, this interactive game-based workshop fuses digital world-building, AI storytelling, and speculative design to explore the future of human and planetary wellbeing in a post-labour world shaped by advanced AI.

Date Wednesday 18th June 2025
Time: 10am to 4pm with break for lunch.
Place: Redmonds Building, room RB137

AI APOCALYPSE: GARDENERS OF THE 5TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
A CREATIVE + CRITICAL THINKING GAME
At the heart of the workshop is the GROWDOME, a real-time 3D game environment where participants explore histories of technological change and imagine new roles for humanity beyond automation. Across the day, we will co-create beings, vote on survival, face unintended consequences, and write manifestos for the future of Barnsley and beyond. GROWDOME is an attempt to create a new approach to knowledge creation using imaginative participative world building and game play.
This is a hands-on creative workshop where participants engage with an emerging game environments, AI agents, physical media and each other to imagine futures beyond the 5th Industrial Revolution.
Why take part?
Help prototype inclusive and creative approaches to AI futures
Explore how art, ethics, history and ecology can inform new models of coexistence
Collaborate with others to co-design hopeful, post-anthropocentric visions
Contribute towards a new approach to cultural event ideation.
Who is this for?
This is a space for anyone interested in:
Rethinking the future of work, community and place
Cross-sector collaboration between technology, art, ecology, and society
Participatory research and public imagination
Creative education, storytelling and cultural strategy
We welcome a diversity of experience and thought. Whether you are a storyteller, care worker, climate researcher, student, artist, teacher, or just curious.

We feel Immersive Liverpool members would be a very valuable source of insight and discussion.