About the team behind Escape Fake

#escapefake

We are an interactive design and technology studio that pairs creativity and technological innovation to create experience spaces in the real and virtual world. With over 20 years of work experience, we create meaningful and playful experiences in AR and VR that make products, concepts or brands stand out from the crowd. Well-crafted storytelling, state-of-the-art technology, and a gameful approach are underlying qualities that shape our products and services. Alongside our work for clients, we develop self-driven projects rooted in the sense of social responsibility about the role of technology in shaping a future world. 

Team

The Escape Fake development team covers a wide range of skills including creative production, design and development, media education and user-centred design. 

 

Irina Paraschivoiu, COO, Polycular, Co-initiator

Thomas Layer-Wagner, CEO, Polycular, Co-initiator

Benjamin Arzt, concept lead, storytelling, 3D, Polycular  

Tobias Hoffman, XR developer, Polycular

Julian Watzinger, XR developer, Polycular

 

The initial Escape Fake team also included Polycular co-founder Robert Praxmarer (1976-2021), Simon Linder and Jürgen Brunner

 

We are supported by our partners who bring complementary knowledge in media education, media monitoring, learning, journalism, rule of law. 

Toolkit and course development

Alice Bovone, Project management 

Roberta Franceschetti and Elisa Salamini (course)

Carolina Borella and Giulia Tincani (toolkit)

Research and media monitoring

Sorin Ionita 

Madalina Voinea 

Residency curation

Timea Kokai Nagy

Barna Petrány

Graphic design and exhibition design

Lukas Rettenbacher

Susanna Vogel 

 

Partners

The Escape Fake development team covers a wide range of skills including creative production, design and development, media education and user-centred design. We are supported by our partners who bring complementary knowledge in media education, media monitoring, learning, journalism, rule of law and cultural production: Expert Forum (Romania), La Fabbrica (Italy) and ProProgressione (Hungary).

Expert Forum

is a non-profit / think tank specialized in advocacy education, media literacy and active citizenship, collaborating with a range of institutions such as the European Commission, the World Bank and UNDP. Through the School for Democracy, they engage teachers and students in advocacy and media literacy education.

LaFabrica

is an independent international communication agency, working in the field of educational communication platforms and campaigns. La Fabbrica promotes Scuola.net, a community of over 200,000 teachers and a digital ecosystem for providing certified free training courses for teaching.

ProProgressione

has 10 years of experience in contemporary art production. As an umbrella organisation it brings its wide network of artists and cultural institutions as well as their strong project management skills that enables them to manage a project of such a scale and takes the responsibility for the creative process.