SOLAWKI STUDIOS

Hi! I'm Riley, a designer who crafts meaningful interactions with complex sociotechnical systems.

Over 10 years optimizing operations for human factors in healthcare, education, nonprofit, and tech. MS in Health Informatics, BA in Neuroscience. Current grad student in Digital Media at Northeastern University.

Open to new and challenging projects–particularly those involving event design, experiential learning, or immersive experiences.

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EXPERIENTIAL NARRATIVE

4 THE BLACK WHOLE

EXPERIENTIAL NARRATIVE

CANVA, PINTEREST, AI

THE CONCEPT
“You know everything but you are not a part of anything”: A scientist from a technologically advanced civilization reaches an unlikely agreement with a celestial body.

A project in collaboration with Miguel Chavez Trani: inspired by cosomogenic oral tradition, Tenochtitlan’s Templo Mayor, and circuit boards’ resemblance to miniature cities.

HISTORY
An Ancient former inhabitant of a swallowed world, now melded with The Black Hole, makes a deal to provide its captor a new form of information--direct experience--in exchange for being let out of the hole. The Black Hole agrees, and The Ancient is propelled out of The Black Hole with the mission to create life, and send information. As The Ancient travels at light speed towards their destination planet, they ponder their true goal: sabotage The Hole's extraction efforts, and warn future inhabitants on the target world, Earth.

THE WORLD
Informatic Multiverse – A black hole gives life to planets and galaxies in exchange for information. When a world runs out of information to provide, it is consumed.

EMOTION
Austere, mystery, wonder, love, self-awareness

OBJECTS
Dark stone halls, brilliant swirling globes, glitching data flows, hollow droning hums.

INTERACTIVE
Symbols left behind by ancient civilizations guide players through the halls of the pyramid. Decode them to uncover the warning/origin story. At the top see the information flow to black hole. Enter into black hole and stand among all the worlds it has consumed.

THE FEAST SCRIPT
Introduction

“Welcome to the 1025th annual feast of the cosmic ancestor. We are pleased to gather with you all again to retell, relive, and remember the story that brought us all here today. And in the spirit of the truce between the generators and the ancestralists, I implore you to celebrate this occasion with peace and civility. In keeping with this commitment, we have included the traditional celebratory dishes of both factions.

I invite you all to join with us in a spirit of merriment, a celebration of remembrance, and my sincere wish that the seeds of the ancient alive particles may continue to germinate within us all.

Happy feast day everyone. let us...begin!”

Pyramid Ritual

“As you know, The Great Debate is not one to be solved through conflict, but rather by way of reflection, inquiry, and ritual. Tonight we once again embark upon the ritual walk to the pyramid peaks. Follow the ancients’ symbols through the temple, peer into the black hole, and let us each decide within ourselves whether the ancestor’s banishment was a heroic sacrifice, a grave mistake, or an utter fiction.”

VR & PROJECTION MAPPING CONCEPT
Follow the symbols left behind from ancient civilization to the top of the pyramid, decode them to uncover the origin story at the top of the pyramid, a room where you can view the information flow to black hole enter into black hole and experience all the worlds it has consumed.