InterReality

Professor

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Dr Mattia Thibault is a Professor in Translation in the Creative Industries at Tampere University and has a PhD in Semiotics and Media (Turin University). His research interests include semiotics and translation, extended realities, speculative research, and playfulness in the built environment (real and digital).

He is the leader of the research group InterReality which focuses on the relations between different virtual spaces (and their inhabitants) and their connections with the “real” world.

He is PI of the projects InterReal (ERC-StG), NEXR (Business Finland Co-Research) and Mobility Mindshift (funded by Net Zero Cities, EU). His postdoctoral project “ReClaim” (EU MSCA-IF 793835) focused on urban gamification and bottom-up and punk ways to use playfulness for good.

Thibault is a member of the PLURAL Research Centre and the Research Centres in Gameful Realities. He has been visiting researcher at Tartu University (Estonia), The Strong Museum of Play (Rochester, NY, US), Helsinki University (Finland), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) and Waag | Technology and Society (Netherlands).

CURRENT PROJECTS

InterReal, NEXR, and Mobility Mindshift

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CONTACT

mattia.thibault [at] tuni [dot] fi

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