Petra Ardai is a pioneering theatre professional, experienced educator, and scenario writer specializing in immersive and interdisciplinary experiences across various media including live games, interactive performances, multimedia installations, serious games, workshops and living heritage experiences. She is the artistic director of the art initiative SPACE, explorers of the continuous present, rooted in Amsterdam and Budapest.
With a background in documentary theatre, Petra’s docu-fiction narratives balance fiction and reality, making complex societal issues like polarization, inequality, migration, unprocessed historical past, and climate change intimately relatable through the politics of the personal. Her projects construct imaginary worlds around the fundamental question: “Who owns the Future?”
Petra collaborates closely with cross-sector partners from the arts, sciences, and NGOs. She serves as an advisor to Fonds Podiumkunsten (FPK) and is a founding board member of Plurality University Network (U+), a global initiative dedicated to mobilizing imagination to expand the space for alternative, inclusive, and sustainable futures.
