Collaborative climate imagination game, featuring real feels? That's kinda long... but gathers these bits I really loved:
"Common Ground lets a group face and feel grief, anxiety, and frustration about climate issues without tipping into despair or going numb."
"Emotions and imagination come together with prompts for action."
"It gives a group a structured way to transform conflict into generative imagining, with each other and with place. What people leave with is a time-bound artifact: an unfinished map. They also leave having said hard things out loud in a room that held them, and finding they could imagine forward anyway." --oof, ALLLL the yes to "imagining forward anyway."
Thank you so much for this comment! I appreciate knowing what resonated. It honestly truly helps…and I feel like you, of all people, would recognize the format I’m going for!
You might also appreciate how tactile it’s become. (We’ve never played in person, but IIRC you do movement work?) I’ve integrated all four elements and many modes of expression. I would love to figure out how to make this playable online…
Thank you for being so encouraging of my writing. I appreciate you!
Oh, I’m so glad it was helpful! I really love what you’re doing with Common Ground, and yes, I do movement and meditative/transformational dance, and that’s awesome to hear you’re bringing in all four elements and the tactile aspect! For all the kinesthetic learners… so good. I’m super excited for this.
The first thought I had on making it playable online (by no means comprehensive, especially since I haven’t played yet), is that each person could be drawing this map on their own paper, and I bet they would all look wildly different at the end even when containing “the same” elements… which might bring out another fun aspect of collaboration as the final maps might inform each other in unexpected ways. Total guess here, and that might not even be true at all. But I like the inquiry!
I do hope a way unfolds, and in the meantime I totally support the adventure of in-person testing. How did yesterday’s play go??
That's a FASCINATING idea! Thank you for the suggestion! I'm definitely thinking about the map as artifact in new and different ways...
Thank you for asking about the playtest. :) Unfortunately, the game designer canceled and the psychologist confirmed late. Not hearing from her, I canceled, because the other two have more flexible schedules.
I have another session scheduled for Tuesday though--all university-tied folks. I will absolutely report back. :)
Collaborative climate imagination game, featuring real feels? That's kinda long... but gathers these bits I really loved:
"Common Ground lets a group face and feel grief, anxiety, and frustration about climate issues without tipping into despair or going numb."
"Emotions and imagination come together with prompts for action."
"It gives a group a structured way to transform conflict into generative imagining, with each other and with place. What people leave with is a time-bound artifact: an unfinished map. They also leave having said hard things out loud in a room that held them, and finding they could imagine forward anyway." --oof, ALLLL the yes to "imagining forward anyway."
Thank you so much for this comment! I appreciate knowing what resonated. It honestly truly helps…and I feel like you, of all people, would recognize the format I’m going for!
You might also appreciate how tactile it’s become. (We’ve never played in person, but IIRC you do movement work?) I’ve integrated all four elements and many modes of expression. I would love to figure out how to make this playable online…
Thank you for being so encouraging of my writing. I appreciate you!
Oh, I’m so glad it was helpful! I really love what you’re doing with Common Ground, and yes, I do movement and meditative/transformational dance, and that’s awesome to hear you’re bringing in all four elements and the tactile aspect! For all the kinesthetic learners… so good. I’m super excited for this.
The first thought I had on making it playable online (by no means comprehensive, especially since I haven’t played yet), is that each person could be drawing this map on their own paper, and I bet they would all look wildly different at the end even when containing “the same” elements… which might bring out another fun aspect of collaboration as the final maps might inform each other in unexpected ways. Total guess here, and that might not even be true at all. But I like the inquiry!
I do hope a way unfolds, and in the meantime I totally support the adventure of in-person testing. How did yesterday’s play go??
That's a FASCINATING idea! Thank you for the suggestion! I'm definitely thinking about the map as artifact in new and different ways...
Thank you for asking about the playtest. :) Unfortunately, the game designer canceled and the psychologist confirmed late. Not hearing from her, I canceled, because the other two have more flexible schedules.
I have another session scheduled for Tuesday though--all university-tied folks. I will absolutely report back. :)
Yes, please! And sounds awesome about the map as artifact.