Wednesday, March 17, 2010

(liberating) World Changing Games


This woman is crazy! The kind of crazy that figures out how to put McGiver to shame! My current obsession is how we (as a society) manage to socialize our children to feel like there is nothing they can achieve, that the best option for them is to relegate to the life of crime, violence, and general lack of hope. How do we generate entire generations and neighborhoods that are depressed, frustrated, and lack the verve to break through just to show the world that they can (a metaphorical middle finger to the system and the man).


She took the opposite proposition, and actually got somewhere. Her approach is as unorthodox, as it seems effective!

So in the spirit of the recent Game Developers Conference, the recent Society for Research on Adolescence conference, and the ongoing SXSW Interactive - here she is!

Epic win! I



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bio: TED or IFTF
the institute for the future: IFTF

1 comment:

  1. I like these ideas. We will have to develop many of these games in Argentina, in order to solve security, drugs and corruption problems.

    Thanks for opening our minds.

    Diego Montero
    www.reddeciudadanos.org.ar

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