Hawker

Board Game

Concept

The international workshop at HSA in cooperation with documenta 15 and the Technical University of Kenya is based on the guiding ideas of documenta fifteen. These can be understood as a call to build creative spaces for action, developing knowledge and design ideas ("gestaltung") for a more human environment. The workshop aims to develop these concepts, visualize them and make them accessible for different target groups in a playful way. The format and medium used is board games. As a possible follow-up in the context of documenta fifteen the development of a computer game based on this experience is intended.

Organisation

The partners negotiate a selection of themes (out of the documenta guiding ideas) before the workshop. The workshop itself will be held in presence but can be attended also online by the students from Nairobi. Participants come from a variety of backgrounds in design, media, and art and have different skill levels, from undergraduate to graduate. Digital workspaces (e.g. Miro Boards, Incom workspaces) will help collaborating between local and online participants.

Input

  • Mary Clare: visualization, scenarios, prototyping
  • Ernst: documenta values and perspectives
  • Jens: game principles and methods
  • Doris: intercultural and gender perspectives

Output

Playable prototypes realized with an international student team

Methods

  • Short introductory lessons, topics: documenta values, game principles, intercultural issues
  • pitching and documentation of concepts
  • rapid prototyping and iterative re-conception
  • adaption, variation and transfer of game concepts
  • thinking by playing, game design thinking

Objectives

  • Awareness of different cultural perspectives
  • Transforming abstract concepts into vivid and interactive communication tools
  • Use of game mechanisms as a communication format
  • Perception of different perspectives as an opportunity for cooperation
  • Development and visualization of scenarios and playful handling of decision consequences

Team

Workshop during international design Week Augsburg, participiants from Augsburg (THA) and Nairobi (TUK), supervised by Prof. Mary-Clair Kidenda (Nairobi) and Prof. Jens Müller (Augsburg).