In our quest to create a glocal game that encourages cooperation, strengthens real world connections while allowing us to use the Internet to co-weave our stories, the Play4Life Challenge has emerged
Initially concieved as a single team game in the streets of Athens (part of an immersive technique pioneered to integrate street theater with the sense of a game), Play4Life expanded as the group dynamics oganically formed a network of GameMakers, who have been actively co-designing the game they will play figuring out how to link Athens to other gamenodesThe designing of the game evolved to become part of the play, as the group consciousness intuitively began to formulate a method of play to allow us from many parts of the world to play together with whom we choose, how we choose and towards healing our inner and shared wounds, finding courage to forge ahead, to commune with each other. In this sense, ‘play’ became the objective and trust became the currency Another clear design detail that heavily influenced the design of the game was the idea that the technology (and desire/ability to connect to far-away) should not surpass the intimacy and directness of real life connections. We did not want the device to come between people in a shared space, but to invisibly affirm our connection and allow us to share some of the experiences and outcomes some early design around some sort of gaming appSo in the end, the gaming side was less developed (no gaming app or heavy live video streaming) and we instead focused on creating a genuine mindful game process that incorporates U-Theory, immersive street theater like Theater of Oppressed, Dragon Dreaming and the kinds of systems thinking we need to represent ourselves as Citizens of the EarthShip The game should be playable if you are alone in the middle of the wild, if you are in the city with a few buddies that want to play along, or at a more centralized node that has several teams co-playing. If you are not at a key node (for now — Athens, Bonn and Cape Town), you will have a few options on how to play If you are going solo, we suggest having some paper and pens if you want to share some of your thoughts or doodles. If you plan to be entirely offline ( really in the woods and with no network ), you can download (and write) a few things down to help guide the journey If you have a few buddies, then as a group, you should figure out a good space to play the game. It could be, we imagine, a public space like the beach or park. Especially in the city, we know this isnt always practical. Still, connecting to Natures patterns (as we re-pattern ourselves as individuals and society at large) is really important, so find a space that you might not have first thought of, a liminal in-between space that needs some love and would love some interactions On the GameDay, 11.11 am is when the game officially starts in Athens. At this point, in Bonn the start of the Climate March at the United Nations climate conference COP23. At this point we begin this process of Play, co-sensing and testing ways to demonstrate interdependance and form fresh creative outputs, playing together to change our inner world If you have not registered yet, please head to www.play4life.ga Check out also our FaceBook group, and also our EarthSong Bounty (decided by consensus and in the form of a FairCoin (cryptocurrency) wallet Also, check out the backstory of how the Play4Life game evolved here
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Early 2017 and many people began to gather in groupings around the Global Challenges competition that was asking question on the the shape of global governance, how decentralization and fresh paradigms could be applied to the how-we-deal-with-global-issuesMany groupings began to investigate this, with the blockchain being perhaps the most obvious emergent technology that we could be using for these lens. Our team of artists and theater folk and climate justice artivists were initially intruiged by the shape that the mycelium network, decentralised and distributed with every node being autonomous and at the same time an interdependent component (see holacracy)
In order to find the new shapes and patterns, we need to use a new eye. This we consider to be the CitiZen eye, a global view that corresponds to the ´overview effect´, sensing the interconnectedness and interdependence of the myriad components of the complex Earth systems. The CitiZen see himself as a crew member of the Earthship, a responsible and responsive custodian who does not lose personal identity yet gains the communal responsibilities and rewards for being aliveThe digital era affirms this global inter-connection, and as this emergent global consciousness is now able to view itself in the mirror of the Web, we as a planetary awareness is evolving from the old patterns of blinkered capitalism and stupid consumption, to a supra-state (nationless rock floating in space), as we start to close fossil fuel economy and engage more with circular economies, local exchanges and person to person contracts (no third party authorization required) … is based on action research that integrates glocal solutions and scalable transition methodologies like permaculture (2) and transition town(3), with consensus decision making (4) tools and protocols as well as blockchain technology(5), within a framework of how we wish to see the world operating — open and accessible, unrestricted and free, cooperative collaborative co-creation that harnesses collective intelligence and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’. All of this is kept in the perspective of the planetary boundaries and sharing the communal responsibilities and rewards of being CitiZens of the EarthShip Even as the world is figuring out how to define itself, it is figuring out new and fresh ways to solve global issues like inequality and climate change. Technology emerges again to create new paradigms, with 3D printers, AR/VR and quantum computing all about to alter our understanding of what it means to be a human living on Earth (or possibly off-Earth) Our group, in tackling the challenge of imagining and designing a new way we relate to each other globally, found that our group did not have all the skill sets required, which led us to intuite that the new shape of global identity will be a slow process, that through consensus and strength in diversity, a rigid and responsive decentralized system could emerge. Our simple solution to help start this process. Play a game… By using this gaming environment, we become the PlayAgents facilitating communal stories, an active laboratory of discovery and uncovery , integrating and synthesizing through playful, immersive experiences, both off and online. Together we create an abundant functional economical system that is equal and transparent, where the community act together for the global well-being.…..facilitating a gaming simulation to research and foster integrative experiments, to establish a new global government with its own cryptocurrency and a open cooperation decision making process. There are no formal institutions, there are only temporary nodes that are made and unmade in cyclical automated manner that is embedded in the blockchain code itself … a New game, a way to make and take new shapes, all while creating a simulation (to some degree) of this global co-connective and open trust system we seem to be collectively envisioning. And thus, the Play4Life game was launched in September 2017, with the GameDay of GamePlay being 11/11 The first stage of this experiment is in November with the launch of the global collaborative win-win game based in Athens. This game will introduce the concept of playing to different rules (other than competition win-lose) and allow us to develop this model further. We will also begin to introduce the idea of a global citizenship by issuing all players with a global ID that is blockchain-verified, and an embedded digital cryptocurrency wallet that begins to familiarize the technology This game(play4life.ga) is designed to reward cooperation and connection, while connecting autonomous nodes from around the globe who wish to play together P2P. The game itself has taken many forms, starting as a group of crazy artist-dreamers wanting to do a single day Theater of the Oppressedpublic space game/activation, which grew to the idea of having many places in the world interacting with this game, and in some ways, playing the same game, going through the same process, with a gaming mechanism to encourage interactions and inter-dependance, plus the blockchain for its imutable record plus accountability in consensus systems "yes it will take time, yes there is lot of tweaking to be done. but this is time to do it and create a global rewiring from competition to cooperation" At time of writing, the game is in the late-development-phase, with gamemakers across the globe co-sensing and collaborating in a process of ‘designing the game we play in’ This process is still open (not for much longer though) for players on the day and for gamemakers to host nodes to join the game nodes playing on 11/11 in Athens, Bonn, Cape Town and more tbc [email protected] Website: http://play4life.ga TG PlayGroup : t.me/joinchat/FJ4akQ12f3HgyUZy5YivMQ Check out the FaceBook Group If you are a blockchain coder, check out our Bounty |
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