The Education of Ursula

Description

The education of Ursula is an interactive exhibit where guests play a game with an artificial intelligence to create objects from hopeful futures.

Ursula aims to build your Futures Literacy—the capacity to imagine preferable futures. She (or perhaps it) embodies the goal of Necessary Tomorrows – a multi-platform documentary project which merges science fiction and speculative fact. Audiences first met Ursula as the narrator of a six-part podcast series released by Al Jazeera in January 2024 – by rendering Ursula as a conversational A.I. agent who can talk and play with you, this version of Necessary Tomorrows aims to build your futures literacy through play and experience. By playing a game known as The Thing From The Future, Ursula helps guests experience fragments of multiple radically different futures.

Creative Director: Brett Gaylor
Ursula: Nacia Walsh
Lead developer: Jet Simon
Developers: Samantha Gortarez, Patrick Colquhoun
Art Direction: Scott Douglas
3D Artist: Fernando Flores Artiga
Music: David Parfit
UX/UI Design: Cianna Dawn
Project Manager: Mike Lowry
Ursula plays The Thing From The Future, by SituationLab

Ursula is part of Necessary Tomorrows, created by Doha Debates & Imposter Media