Katharina Tillmanns is a researcher, designer and lecturer for interactive immersive media at TH Koeln. A former co-president of the Games for Change Europe network, director of the Notgames Fest and the current SomaFest XR, she has been exploring and promoting the expressive qualities of games and other playful media as a means of art and activism for the past 13+ years. Katharina's current research focus is on multi-sensory learning and expression in the context of mixed reality environments.'