Wider Research Questions

To guide my investigation:

• What motivations do designers have to create alternative worlds/ alternative versions of reality?


• What past and current examples are there of interactive design and art utopias/ dystopias?


• How can designers challenge various ideologies/hegemonies through their artistic and creative virtual world development?


• What can the wider public gain from works, games and spaces that seek to challenge or create realities?


• What actually defines a virtual world? How loose or closed is the definition? Could a painting be said to represent a virtual world?


• What local precedents have successfully opened the conversation regarding this?