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.