The master's degree program in Experimental Game Cultures is dedicated to an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented examination of the pressing issues of our time. The focus of the department is on developing the principles of free, experimental and artistic game design, on art and play and the design of game mechanics that have an impact on social contexts. The head of the department Margarete Jahrmann states: “For me, artistic play is the experimental testing and subjective experience of alternative possibilities of the world and agency. Play as a participatory process can show us ways to positive change, new forms of future society, politics, and empathic coexistence. Through the conscious breaking of rules, the transformation of rule systems, the acceptance of ambiguity as a quality in play, a new understanding for the global challenges of our time can emerge. Our way there is the game!"

| political games | games and nature | low resource games | experimental ludic interfaces | role play | real world games | dark patterns of game design | physical game mechanics | non-human play |  hybrid games |