On Video Games and Virtual Worlds / Alina Nazmeeva

"Virtual worlds in a game enable certain things which are harder to make in the physical space, but they also, in many ways, continue the heuristics of physical space like navigation."

Video games today touch upon discourses on virtual economies, the metaverse and the social element in online games. Alina Nazmeeva's work investigates the relationship between cities and digital games, interfaces and public, CGI and politics.

Alina Nazmeeva graduated from the Master of Science in Urbanism program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was fellow of the New Normal program at Strelka Institute of Media Architecture and Design. She is a research associate at future urban collectives lab at MIT and a research analyst at MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab where she focuses her research on understanding the economy and design of virtual worlds and online games.

To learn more about Alina's research: https://www.n-a.space/