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, Project Lead, Polycular
Thomas Layer-Wagner, CEO, Polycular
Benjamin Arzt, 3D artist, Polycular
Cornelia Dürnberger, Project administration, 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 MOOC development, testing and evaluation
Emanuela Gussoni
Tommaso Napoli
Carolina Borella
Mariarosaria Nardone
Research, media monitoring and rule of law
Sorin Ionita
Madalina Voinea
Cezara Grama
Maria Cezar
Nicoleta Popescu
Residency curation and exhibition design
Timea Kokai Nagy
Barna Petrányi
Anna Seress
External experts
Nick Thorpe
Márton Gulyás
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.