Savva Dudin
Savva Dudin is a serious play designer and educator. As an amateur collapsologist, he recognises affects and collective memories as core material for the investigations into how the social “gets under the skin” through performative enactments, larping workshops, and shared communal acts.
Savva studies groups sustaining themselves through rule-making and the dialectic between metabolic and cybernetic approaches to emergent political forms. Most design cases prototype the nexus between the assignment of roles (subjectivation) and the necessary subjection to rules. This generative tension between estrangement and alienation shapes the serious-play studio practice.
Drawing from political sociology, he researches Soviet utopian pedagogical projects and post-socialist transit. This work grapples with the vicissitudes of the play instinct and politicisation in the wake of societal collapse. His projects treats games as cultural techniques that prototype political fictions, in opposition to wargaming and pre-emptive state violence, through a series of participatory events in which abstract political relations are transformed into tangible, concrete legal constellations.