"Discovery" is an interactive art installation, produced by Damjan Jovanovic and Lidija Kljakovic, that aims to engage visitors with the potential of urban rooftop spaces in creating a more sustainable and livable city. The installation is based on a story about the Airborne Collective, a group of radical environmental hackers who seek to create a flourishing ecosystem on the rooftops of downtown LA.

Damjan Jovanovic is Co-Founder of Los Angeles based game design studio Lifeforms.io. He is an architect, educator and game designer who works as a design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Damjan finished the post-graduate Master of Arts in Architecture degree at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany in 2014, where he afterwards worked as design faculty. Damjan’s work centers on the exploration of play and space, and his interests lie in investigating questions of contemporary architectural education, authorship and creativity.

Lidija Kljakovic is Co-Founder of game design studio Lifeforms.io. She is a designer and digital artist, working at the intersection between video games and fashion and specializing in procedural design and creation of digital life forms. Lidija is a multidisciplinary creative with experience ranging from hard core architectural design and development of real-world high rises in Frankfurt, Germany to running a successful fashion brand and store in Belgrade, Serbia. Her work was exhibited internationally, most recently at Ars Electronica and Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Germany.

Crew Credits –

Production:
Creator and Executive Producer - Hernan Diaz Alonso
Producers - Reza Monahan/William Virgil
Segment Producer/Interviewer – Marcelyn Gow
Director - Reza Monahan
Director of Photography - Walker Sayen
B Camera - Gabriel Simao
C Camera – Michael Rice
Swing Tech - Hongwon Suh
Sound Engineer - Chris Trueman

Post-Production:
Story Producer – Vivian Charlesworth
Editors –Claudia Fucigna /Reza Monahan

Soundtrack by Sara Johanne and Jason Breeden. Inspired by the "Discovery" exhibition soundtrack produced by Jake Matatyaou.

Additional Images and Video Provided by Damjan Jovanovic and Lidija Kljakovic

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