EU08 GAMES

Social Practices of Architecture and their Political Dimension

2015-2016

Tutor: Socrates Stratis

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Alliance for Collective Seafronts

Commons Aware

Team: Andria Georgiou, Louiza Chiarlistou, Eva Konstantinou

It is a role playing game with each player supporting the agendas of the assigned urban actors and their interests .The goal of the game is to contribute to the city’s commons. Each contribution corresponds to additional points. The game offers means of conciliation for arriving to a win-win situation among the players. The winner is the person with the most accumulated points.

Alliance for Collective Seafronts

It is a memory game that invites the players to guess about the actors’ agendas regarding controversial matters. Through the recollection of the urban actors’ agendas, the players navigate through the images of the Famagusta’s enclaves on the gameboard aiming to connect the eight enclaves of the city’s waterfront. It is a synergy game, since the players are invited to decide on the city’s common interest by forming alliances among them

Team: Andreas Mpyrros, Laoura Tziourrou, Sofia Christodoulou, Elpida Kyriakou

Ammopolitics

Team: Stavroula Michael, Lenia Pachy, Panagiota Valtoudi

Ammopolitics is a negotiation game aiming to reconnect the fragmented sea coastline of the post-conflict Famagusta. The negotiations take place among urban actors with different ethnic origin, as well as with diverse priorities and agendas. The game offers ways of collaboration and encourages synergies among the players to reconnect the coastline as the city’s commons. Yet, the politics of individual interest may prevail. The players would need to confront such condition. The cards of the gameboard will determine the players’ relations.

Famagusta Me Gusta

Team: Pablo Palomares, Erasmia Papallou, Rafaella Christophi, Elena Koufopavlou

"Famagusta Me Gusta!" is a hybrid game. The game is played simultaneously on a game board and along Ledra street in the old city of Nicosia. The game board organization is inspired by the ‘trivial pursuit’ game. It makes accessible to the general public the visual material from the www.handsonfamagusta.org in a playfull manner. Thanks to flyers, the game players inform the audience along the street about the controversial matters regarding Famagusta’s post-conflict reconstruction. through leaflets and the controversies found on the web-platform. The game is preparing the way for future collaborations and cohabitation in post-conflict Cyprus.

Pinnit

Team: Anastasia Prodromou, Evdokia Kyriakidou, Laura Moral, Leandros Panousopoulos

The main goals of "Pinnit" game are first to get to know the city of Famagusta and the web-platform "Hands on Famagusta." The game aims to develop strategic skills to promote the spirit of collaboration and collectiveness, regardless of ethnicity and identity. Since the players are not aware of the other players' identities, there are no oppositions. On the contrary, they have common goals, resulting in the possible benefit of players in other teams. Furthermore, there are activities in which everyone participates irrespective of their identity, supporting the team spirit. This way, the game unifies persons of different identities and subconsciously creates the prospect of connecting the enclaves of Famagusta.

"Pinnit" platform was created based on the web-platform "Hands-on Famagusta," which is about the existing enclaves of Famagusta. The main goal of the game is through choosing the appropriate suggestive future scenarios, to integrate the enclaves into a unified urban tissue.

Push the Borders

Team: Ioanna Demetriou, Eleni Nicolaou, Paola Franco, Anna Panagiotou

The game is based on the platform of "Hands on Famagusta." All the questions are taken from the platform in a way to promote the "Hands on Famagusta" web game. The game can be played in the city of Nicosia as an event as well, not only as a table game. The players in each correct answer must paint a part of the "Hands on Famagusta" logo in different places in the city. The chosen places have to have similar characteristics as in the city of Famagusta, learning more about the city.