A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 has ended

Create Your Own Event

A MAZE. / Berlin 2026

Welcome to the A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 program! Add sessions to your profile to get an easy overview of your own schedule!

Program is regularly updated with new sessions.

Jana Romanova (she/her)

the Netherlands

https://janaromanova.com/

Find me on

About me

Jana Romanova is a multidisciplinary artist working with games, performance, and photography. Through live-action role-playing (larps), social games, and various playful experiments, she researches liminal spaces, (in)visible systems that shape us, and what agency and care might look like when we playtest other ways of living together.

20:00 CEST

A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 Opening Ceremony The Garden [Silent Green]

20:30 CEST

Qualia Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Philip Wölk & Moshe Linke

21:00 CEST

quantcept Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]alpha_rats (he/they)

22:00 CEST

A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 Opening Party Panke CulturebauSTELLE • NEOANGIN • Salon Bitter • El Huervo

10:00 CEST

Coffee & Croissants* Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Zuraida Buter

10:30 CEST

The Emotional Labour of Making Games Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Anja "Nanna" Venter Rausch (she/her)

11:00 CEST

Folk Games: Game Design by Passing Along Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Joe Bain (he/him) The artist is present: Making personal games Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Mel Taylor (she/her)

11:30 CEST

Invitation to be bored Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Sondi (she/her)

13:00 CEST

Dig, Bite, Bake, Decapitate ~ Turn Folklore into Play Workshop Room 1Trine Laier • Julia Mirny

14:00 CEST

The Seventh Extinction: On the Disappearance of Independent Festival Space Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Maddalena (she/her)

14:20 CEST

A Story of Personal Iteration Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Apau Gyedu Ebenezer (he/him) aka Mhiracle

14:30 CEST

Abject Permanence: On Art Games Spaces, Festivals and Community Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Farfama (he/they) • Cat Bluemke (she/her) • Joanna Lyu (she/her) • Marie Janin (she/her) • Sarah Bashir (she/her)

15:30 CEST

Gray-scale: the past, present and future of Pigeon: A Love Story Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Alex Taylor (he/him) • Krish Raghav (he/they)

16:30 CEST

Game Poems Betonhalle [Silent Green]Adam Pype (he/him) • bulboka (he/him) • Isaque Sanches (he/him) • Yifan (he/him) • Caitlin DeRosa (he/she) • Jordan Magnuson (he/they) • Ash (she/her) • Kaitlin "KB" Bonfiglio (she/her) • Tereza Kotěšovcová (she/her) • Brendan Allen Plum Road Tea Dream - From theatermaking to game design Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Samuel Baidoo (they/them)

17:00 CEST

Counterfeit Games: Anti-Game Approaches to Playable Experiences Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Jade Lin (she/her) aka strawberrycongee Let's Make a Game Manual for a Game that Doesn't Exist! Workshop Room 1Biagi (he/him) • Isabelle Smith (she/her) • Hatim Benhsain

20:00 CEST

labRats Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Nathan Leigh (he/him) • Nicole Orabona (they/she)

22:00 CEST

Super Open Sound System Panke CultureSos Sosowski

10:00 CEST

Coffee & Croissants with* Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Zuraida Buter

10:30 CEST

As Long As You're Here: Designing Around a Feeling Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Marlène Delrive (she/her) • Ryan Wright (they/them & he/him) a writing workshop (about storytelling through weird mediums) Workshop Room 2Tanat Boozayaangool • Daisy Fernandez

11:00 CEST

Aspirational Imperfections - why we care about making digital worlds you can touch Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Antonio Kos Pinheiro de Andrade (he/him) • Biagi (he/him) • Lukáš Kunce (he/him) • Jack King-Spooner (he/him) • Isabelle Smith (she/her) • Onat Hekimoglu (tbc) • Ilena Pegan (they/them)

12:00 CEST

Experiential Game Design Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Farfama (he/they)

12:30 CEST

Playable for Everyone — Designing Accessible Games Through Collaborative Experimentation Workshop Room 2Alice Di Pinto

14:00 CEST

PlayLabs: Reimagining Creative Space Through Play Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Kamogelo Makhoba (she/her)

14:30 CEST

When the internet is dead where do we go? Here ( •ᴗ•)⸝🥂⸜(•ᴗ• )! Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Joanna Lyu (she/her)

15:00 CEST

Hyper Talks Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Leonie (she/her) • Marina Díez Hyper Talks (stream) Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Leonie (she/her) • Marina Díez

16:00 CEST

Sybil Sybil Sybil Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Alex Declino (he/him) • Beth von Undall (she/her)

17:00 CEST

Handcrafting Your Game Workshop Room 1Chester • Emi • Antonio Kos Pinheiro de Andrade (he/him) • Biagi (he/him) • Isabelle Smith (she/her) • Ilena Pegan (they/them)

20:00 CEST

A MAZE. Award Show Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]GELBART • Antonin Fourneau (he/him) • Julián Cordero (he/him) • Tim Rogers (he/him) • Farfama (he/they) • Meghna Jayanth (she/her) • Sarah Bashir (she/her) • Anan Fries (they/them)

22:00 CEST

The Legendary A MAZE. Jump 'n' Run Party Panke CultureHYENAZ • GELBART • uppercut.continue • Us Again

13:00 CEST

Design Your First Board Game — A Crafting Workshop for Everyone Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Alice Di Pinto IMPROVE YOUR IMPROV: The Theater Stage as an Analog Sandbox Workshop Room 1Susi • Don Marelio

15:30 CEST

Car Boot Casino* (*Krimskramskasino) Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]c.diffin (he/him) • Josh Hadley (he/him) • Ada Null (she/her) • Holly Gramazio (she/her) • Marie Foulston (she/her) • V Buckenham (she/her) • Blake Andrews (they/them) • Finn Carney (they/them)

20:00 CEST

It’s Time to Make a Choice - A performance by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)

21:00 CEST

A MAZE. / Berlin - 15 year's anniversary - Positive Chaos Party Urban Spree / b-domeBLEACH • GEWALT • TIA • NelesOn • CLiT BAiT • Patric Catani • Anita Drink