Google Suite, Slack, email, LLM assistants, social media... Everyday software is where we live most of our digital life. These mundane tools, designed for administrative tasks and productivity, carry a capacity for creative misuse. This lab is an invitation to build a more direct and playful relationship to software, by reappropriating existing tools as instruments for collective performance and play.

We draw a lineage of desktop performance, live-coding, and screen-as-venue practices, and ask how those forms travel across the wider terrain of ready-made tools. Somewhere between performance and game, these practices share a commitment to literacy, liveness, and playing together. In a moment where technology often feels opaque or imposed, the lab explores how intentional playful engagement can rebuild a sense of agency, and how we can learn to love the computer (and through that, trust each other) again.