You Win Some, You Lose Some

You Win Some, You Lose Some is a traveling storytelling project by Veldwerk that revolves around chance, luck, and the raw realities of life. At its center stands an interactive storytelling machine, designed as a slot machine, which plays a personal story from Rotterdammers living on the margins of society with every pull of the lever.

Mothership was responsible for concept development, technical execution, and project management. Through this collaboration, the artwork was able to move and confront people across various locations in Rotterdam — a slot machine that doesn’t pay out money, but empathy.