{"id":9983,"date":"2025-09-25T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=9983"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:14:32","slug":"architectures-of-imperial-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/architectures-of-imperial-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectures of Imperial Empowerment: On the Crystal Palace and Open World Games as World-Shaped Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"historyplay-lecture-with-marc-bonner-university-of-applied-sciences-kaiserslautern-germany\"\n    >\nHistory@Play Lecture with Marc Bonner, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk will address rural open-world games that adapt physical-real iconic places and explore their ecological as well as ideological implications. As entertainment environments in the tradition of landscape gardens and national parks, compensating for a wilderness long lost, these games will be defined as world-shaped halls, in reference to both the structural properties of the Crystal Palace as an architectural analogy and philosopher Sloterdijk\u2019s critical remarks on the geo-political implications of that building as an embodiment of Victorian imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Marc Bonner<\/strong> graduated in art history, history of the modern age and information science from Saarland University. From 2024 to 2025 he was a substitute professor for history and theory of media at the study program Virtual Design at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern. From 2017 to 2022 he led the research project \u201cOpen World Structures: Architecture, City- and Natural Landscape in Computer Games\u201d which was funded by the German Research Foundation. 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