Design Workshop - I, CITIZEN: The Activist's Board Game

[Benjamin Sugar]

Hey all,

Thought some of you might be into this.  If you love civic things things, enjoy games, and/or enjoy finding ways to game-ify things, come on down!  Forward along, etc.

I, CITIZEN: The Activist's Board Game

The Museum of Contemporary Phenomena invites

YOU 

to help us create

I, CITIZEN  

The Activist Board Game... 

Interested? Come to our Game Makers Workshop

Sunday February 23, 2014

1:30-4:00 PM @CivicLab

114 N Aberdeen, Chicago

TOGETHER we will...

• Discuss, explore, design, create, and test TOOLS & ACTIONS & STRATEGIES for shaping a civil society.
• Invent a game that is effective, addictive and enormously fun to play.
• Provide a way for PLAYERS to change the course of history, solve a problem in the public realm, or simply make the world a little nicer.

Bring your creative problem solving skills and we promise to give you an afternoon of hands-on collaboration, thought-provoking conversation, multi-media design challenges, and snacks... for free!

Register here: http://icitizen.eventbrite.com  OR  here: icitizen2000 [at] gmail [dot[ com 

Include your name and email address and we will send you information about us and the GAME MAKER’S PAMPHLET to get you started.

I, Citizen is a project of the Museum of Contemporary Phenomena, an ad hoc curatorial project fostering public forums for ideas. I, Citizen will be featured in “RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice” at the Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College of Chicago, February 10 to April 26, 2014. We are partnering with CivicLab, a coworking space in the west Loop dedicated to collaboration, education, and innovation for civic engagement.

Please join us.