Totalitarian Simulator

The Totalitarian Simulator is the biggest project of nongovernmental nonprofit organization OPONA. In last two years OPONA prepared study and model of this extensive interactive space and now is working on realisation and looking for partners. Model of the Simulator is used also for workshops in FUTURAMA project.

This large-scale interactive exhibition has been put together by historians, teachers and artists to enable visitors to learn about and experience first-hand the situations specific to different stages of life at various times under totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia (1948–89).

The model of the spectacular Totalitarian Simulator sheds light on the principle of this planned project: how visitors become a virtual person on the threshold of adulthood at the time of the political coup in 1948 and how they are sucked into the society of totalitarian Czechoslovakia. In the Simulator, visitors will have the chance to see how in the full scale Simulator, active participants will have to respond to real events, take decisions for their virtual character, and immediately see how their reactions compare to the real stories and fates of people living under totalitarianism. The Simulator model was designed and produced by the Jednotka artists Rastislav Juhás and Richard Wiesner.