The game
A co-designed game about cyborgs, sentient machines, and preferable technological futures
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How can we explore visions of the future that are dynamic and pluralistic, instead of following the narrow narratives of Silicon Valley? What experiences of our technological present can help us shape a better technological future?
Algorithms of Late-capitalism: The Game is a board game that was made through a co-design process in which diverse groups of participants grappled with the complex realities of living in an algorithmic age, and imagined pathways towards more desirable alternative futures.
In this game, players become part of a community of cyborgs, trying to survive and thrive in a world ruled by the first Cult of Sentient Machines. Play the game and discover how you can create a better technological future by banding together and subverting the very rules of the game. Or turn on each other and conform to the imperious datafied demands of the Cult of Sentient Machines’ rule-bound regime.
Download the game files to print and play at home:
Print files RulebookLow-ink version coming soon!
Printed hard copies will be available soon. If you are interested in acquiring a printed copy, you can get in touch with us at:
internetteapot[at]gmail[dot]com
We love to collaborate with others. Don't hesitate to connect with us if you have any idea in mind for Algorithms of Late-capitalism.
We can aslo organize guided play-sessions of the game if you have an audience or event in mind.
The Algorithms of Late-capitalism: The Game project was created through a co-design process. We used board game co-design as a medium for bringing diverse groups of people together to explore imaginaries for more desirable technological futures.
As the design & research studio internet teapot, throughout 2021 we facilitaeted four co-design workshops to complete this project. Over the course of these four sessions, a total of 39 participants from different backgrounds, experiences, ages, genders, professions, cultures, and parts of the world came together to create this game. Each person brought something unique to the project, without which this game would not have come into existence.
The aim of the co-design workshops was to create a space and opportunity for diverse perspectives to engage in discussing the role digital technologies play in our lives and society at large. It is not only corporations, startup CEOs, and software engineers that should decide what our technological realities should be. As technology users, we all have experiential expertise to contribute to creating more desirable and inclusive technological futures.
Algorithms of Late-capitalism: The Game consequently represent a game through which players can explore a range of different ideas, visions for, and reflections on technology that can hopefully provoke some critical questions of their own.
Read more about the workshops here.
Algorithms of Late Capitalism: The Game was made possible through support from the New New Fellowship organized by SuperrrLab, Bertelsmann Stiftung, and Allianz Kulturstiftung.
internet teapot is Karla Zavala Barreda and Adriaan Odendaal
Special thanks to the team from Tactical Tech and Tshimologong Precinct for contributing to the workshop facilitation.
This game is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
To learn more about this project and our work, feel free to get in touch:
internetteapot[at]gmail[dot]com
