GAMING GLOBAL RESILIENCE
I had the pleasure of exchanging ideas this weekend with Critt Jarvis, formerly of Enterra Solutions and Dr. Barnett’s original webmaster (duties now ably carried out by Sean Meade). Critt is embarked on an exciting developmental project with Dave Davison, to create an international relations game that reflects critical concepts from The Pentagon’s New Map along with Development in a Box and emergent principles like resilience.
Is this game Risk for futurist wonks ? Critt’s vision:
“For me, I see a MMPORG designed to allow participatory experience in learning to make global connections. The goal? Experiment in a virtual world, influenced by current events in-game and then be inspired to try it in real life. Educational, inspirational. Now that would be a conversation worth creating”
Critt emailed me a copy of the conceptual core of the game ” The Basic Cultural Unit ” for commentary which I gave, plus the feedback of a select group of my students. As soon as I can figure out how to repost the image here from a PDF file into blogger, I’ll solicit the input of Zenpundit readers.
Ah, my kingdom for a webmaster….
May 15th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
LOL ! It would indeed be small given this blog’s current revenue stream :O)
At least I’m in the black….
May 15th, 2006 at 11:39 pm
I always just take a screenshot of the image (typically the PrintScrn) button, open an image editor (either MS Paint, which comes with Windows, or Paint.net), paste it, and then crop it.
May 16th, 2006 at 2:22 am
Dan the Mandarin
Hey – Aren’t you on vacation???
J/K – thank you, I’ll give that a try later tonight or tomorrow.