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Ida Benedetto is an experience director and a researcher of immersive experience design based out of New York City. She is a co-founder of Sextantworks and Antidote Games.
Ida Benedetto graduated with a bachelor's degree in History at The New School University. [1] She received a B.F.A. in Design & Technology at the Parsons School of Design, and her M.A. in Design Research at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. [1] [2]
Benedetto worked as the first Director of Dialogue Design and Community Engagement at the Rockefeller Foundation. [2] [3] She is a co-founder of the Antidote Game and Accused, projects which use games to explore group dynamics and systems. [4] [5] These projects were funded by the New York University Stern School of Business and created in partnership with the Innocence Project while using the programming tool Twine. [4] Ida Benedetto and N. D. Austin co-founded Wanderlust Projects, which creates transgressive placemaking experiences. [6] [2] [7] [8] [9] These projects focus on “reanimating a space or getting it back into circulation.” [8] Some of Wanderlust Projects include the Night Heron Water Town Speakeasy, the Illicit Couple's Retreat, and the Candyland Trespass Safari. [1] [7] [8] [10] [11] [12] These locations have now closed. [1] [8] [11] [13]
Benedetto advises documentary and education organizations such as the School for Poetic Computation, Radiotopia's The Heart, and the Magnum Foundation's Photography Expanded initiative. [14] [10] She has given talks at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Cusp Conference, and Businessweek's Design Conference. [15]
Benedetto has been attributed as an influence in the work of Priya B. Parker in “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” and Bruce Feiler's “Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age”. [16]
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