Presentation and play
What if sport wasn’t about winning or losing, but about reimagining how we relate to one another? Combining action and reflection, a workshop at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and a presentation at the Stedelijk reimagine sport as a means of fostering inclusivity and challenging traditional group dynamics.
By creating alternative team sports, Gabriel Fontana’s work highlights how play can encourage social empathy and solidarity. The goal of his methods is to give people a playful way of experiencing what the prevailing norms of identity, community and belonging really mean, and how we can bring about change. He uses sport as the perfect metaphor, where the idea of playing ‘against each other’ is usually the norm. By subverting traditional norms and suggesting deviations, this session reinvents sport as a queer pedagogy. Come play differently. The game is ours to reinvent.
Gabriel Fontana is an independent designer known for his unique approach to social design. His work proposes to reshape society by creating new sports games tailored to today’s world.