YKON Game at Molekula
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Passing this on:
YKON – game MINE-YOURS-OURS Festival in Rijeka / Croatia
The YKON Game is a world simulation game for up to 30 players. It’s based on a simple thought experiment: imagine that the world is brought to a complete halt. Everything stops. No more business as usual. With the world frozen, you and your fellow players can tinker with it as you please. What will you change? How do you convince others to go along with your changes? And what about the consequences?
Through the 1960′s, Buckminster Fuller was developing the “World Game”. It was to be his masterplan for the planet Earth: a tool that would formulate a comprehensive, design science approach to all the problems of the world. Inspired by the ideas of Fuller, we have developed the YKON Game, a more poetic perspective on the future of our world.
Instead solving the problems that we know, The YKON Game seeks to uncover the ideas that we’re still missing — sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter the world, and the way we live in it. For its players, the game poses an existential challenge: they will have to think about what kind of world they truly want.
So come and change the world. You don’t need to be an expert: everyone is welcome.
Time
FRIDAY, October 16
18:30- 24:00
Location
Molekula
Delta 5
51000 Rijeka
Contact/Info/ RSVP
info@ykon.org
Passing this on:
YKON – game MINE-YOURS-OURS Festival in Rijeka / Croatia
The YKON Game is a world simulation game for up to 30 players. It’s based on a simple thought experiment: imagine that the world is brought to a complete halt. Everything stops. No more business as usual. With the world frozen, you and your fellow players can tinker with it as you please. What will you change? How do you convince others to go along with your changes? And what about the consequences?
Through the 1960′s, Buckminster Fuller was developing the “World Game”. It was to be his masterplan for the planet Earth: a tool that would formulate a comprehensive, design science approach to all the problems of the world. Inspired by the ideas of Fuller, we have developed the YKON Game, a more poetic perspective on the future of our world.
Instead solving the problems that we know, The YKON Game seeks to uncover the ideas that we’re still missing — sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter the world, and the way we live in it. For its players, the game poses an existential challenge: they will have to think about what kind of world they truly want.
So come and change the world. You don’t need to be an expert: everyone is welcome.
Time
FRIDAY, October 16
18:30- 24:00
Location
Molekula
Delta 5
51000 Rijeka
Contact/Info/ RSVP
info@ykon.org