ARIA is a summer school designed as a role-playing game that takes place through the lens of a fiction-theory narrative to explore ways of imagining new possibilities for what our world can be in a time of changing planetary ecology.

The second edition of ARIA is dedicated to spectrality and the ends of worlds, exploring rituals for mourning, and ways of interfacing with the specters of the (deep) past and future that haunt our ecologically fragile planet. It brings together artists, critical thinkers, and experts from diverse fields for an intensive that starts with two days of public events (lectures and discussions) and continues with five days of a closed-door RGP (Real Game Play) experience with workshops by invited mentors.