Leon van Oldenborgh (NL) creates both physical and digital interactive experiences that disrupt the way people routinely interact with their environments, encouraging them to reflect on how their chosen behaviour within the experience relates to their actions outside of it through play. They have a background in game and interaction design, where they learned the intricate ways a designer can influence the decisions made by users. In their work they are most interested in exploring how people decide to interact with one another and how those decisions are influenced by factors that are explicitly designed by specific parties, such as technology or factors that are communally created, but are not designed per se like culture or social expectations.
Most recently their work has focused on communicating the power that lies within the position of designing widely adopted technology like web interfaces or location-based games, and has been exhibited at places like Ars Electronica (AT), IMPAKT (NL) and V2_ Lab (NL).