Drawdown: Play to Enter - Representing Climate Activism Through Gameplay

“Drawdown: Play to Enter” is a cooperative game designed to simulate the joys of negotiation and collective action required to work through climate strategy and resource management in the built environment. Disciplinary approaches to representing climate activism often focus on a fixed condition of intervention (before vs. after), whereas game design embodies the active qualities of negotiation, compromise, balance, and incremental progress that occur in the in-between. By introducing the concept of interplay1 to architectural frameworks on the climate, game design expands the territory of architectural agency to model complex mechanisms of environmental stewardship that engage in scientific processes and stakeholder ecologies. The project leverages the fundamental principles of games as a medium of agency.2 Using the large table game board as a representational tool for our shared domain, players in DRAWDOWN are tasked with the shared responsibility of mitigating carbon outputs through the introduction of drawdown technologies while maintaining critical public programs.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.111.10

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978-1-944214-41-8