The Spheres City x Tangible Utopias, the visionary VR franchise directed by Fulbright alumna Ioana Mischie, won the prestigious Open Frame Award at goEast Film Festival 2021, becoming the first internationally awarded Romanian VR project.
Ioana accepted the award during the online Ceremony held on April 26, 2021: “We are infinitely humbled to receive this award and we warm-heartedly dedicate it to the visionary children worldwide. This recognition invites us to believe there is a solid future both for daring civic imagination and for meaningful transdisciplinary VR practices. Artistic VR has the power to facilitate profound societal change on the short, medium, and long term if used wisely.”
The Spheres City is the first pioneering habitat of Tangible Utopias, inspired by the ideas of Romanian children, with ages between 7 and 12 years old, regarding the evolution of human cityscapes in the future and brought to life by a transdisciplinary team reuniting architects, architects, 3D artists, sound designers, developers or music composers. Tangible Utopias aims to create an alternative, multi-layered society of the future and is a continuation of the transmedia universe titled Government of Children. Viewers are able to join in shaping the interactive world according to their own ideas and receive their very own utopia as a souvenir gift at the conclusion of the experience.
The official trailer is available at: https://vimeo.com/476444668
More details about Ioana and her work: https://www.ioanamischie.com