Fusion Slam GP – Sports
Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports is a series of sporting competitions that explores how sports can bring together people with different backgrounds, abilities, genders, generations, cultures and relationships with technology.
The programme explores new forms of competition through the purposeful combination of different sports, physical abilities, technologies and forms of collaboration.
Its objective is not simply to create new sports by combining existing rules. It is to discover new sporting values through interaction between different disciplines and participants.
Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports begins with Propulsive Football (PROBALL), the first competitive mixed football format designed to bring people together through sports.
Propulsive Football (PROBALL)
Propulsive Football (PROBALL) is a competitive mixed football concept that explores how people with different physical characteristics and sporting abilities can compete and collaborate within the same game.
Rather than treating difference as a barrier, Propulsive Football (PROBALL) explores how different strengths can become part of the strategy of a team.
The concept explores new possibilities in the following areas:
• People with different backgrounds competing and collaborating in the same competition.
• Players with different physical abilities working together as a team.
• Different individual strengths contributing to new team strategies.
• People and machines collaborating in competition and performance.
• New forms of inclusive competitive sports.
Propulsive Football (PROBALL) is the starting point for a broader exploration of how the structure of sports can evolve.
Performing Arts Mixed (Human-Machine)
Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports also explores competition and performance that combine human participants with machines.
One example is a human-machine mixed dance performance, in which people and machines perform together as collaborators. Through the dance performance combining people and machines, we propel collaboration and coexistence between humans and machines.
The performance can involve the following:
• Human dancers perform together with robots and autonomous machines.
• Artificial intelligence can influence or participate in the performance.
• Motion sensors can detect the movements of the performers.
• Interactive lighting can respond to the performance.
• Real-time audiovisual systems can change in response to the performance.
The objective is not simply to make machines imitate human movement. It is to explore what new forms of movement, expression and collaboration can emerge when humans and machines participate in the same performance.
This creates a new question for sports and performance:
• What can humans and machines achieve together that neither could achieve alone?
Beyond Conventional Sports
The future of Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports may include new forms of competition that combine the following elements:
• different sports
• mixed-gender participation
• different generations
• disabled and non-disabled athletes
• humans and machines
• physical performance and artificial intelligence
• sports and performing arts
• athletic performance and scientific measurement
• physical competition and digital environments
Each event can become an experiment in the future of sports.
The format may change from one competition to another. The participants may also change. The central principle remains the same:
New sporting value can emerge when different people, abilities, disciplines and technologies meet.
A New Approach to Sporting Competition
Traditional sports usually establish fixed rules, fixed equipment and fixed categories. These structures have created many outstanding sporting traditions.
Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports explores what may happen when these structures become open to experimentation.
A competition may combine the following elements in new ways:
• football with robotics
• dancing with robotics
The purpose is not to replace traditional sports.
The purpose is to explore new possibilities that traditional sporting structures may not yet provide.
The Vision
Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports aims to become a platform for discovering new forms of sporting competition and collaboration.
This programme poses the following questions:
• How can sports bring together people who are different from one another?
• How can sport create new forms of cooperation between humans and machines?
• How can different sports and disciplines generate new sporting experiences?
• What could the next generation of sports look like?
Through Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports, sports becomes more than a competition between individuals or teams.
It becomes a living experiment that explores the following areas:
• integration of people
• new forms of collaboration
• greater inclusion in sports and society
• innovation in competition and performance
• new forms of coexistence between humans and machines
• the future of physical performance
Fusion Slam Grand Prix – Sports explores the possibility that the future of sports may not be defined by keeping different worlds apart, but by discovering what they can achieve together.
