Date/Time
Date(s) - 2013/05/04
11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location
Bay Area Public School
Categories
Join us for a game of Terra Incognita. Explore Oakland and turn the city into a board game.
The city is an open ended puzzle. Terra Incognita is a game of urban exploration. With the help of the DEMILIT Collective, we will be discovering the city anew and making the familiar unfamiliar and either way It will be a great way to spend a spring afternoon in Oakland. THIS event is Kid-Friendly.
Tentative Schedule
Noon- meet at Sudoroom go over rules pick themes
1230-3 Explore Oakland Create your pieces
3 reassemble the city
Details of the general guidelines for the game in its previous iteration are here:http://demilit.tumblr.com/terraincognita
The Game:
Puzzles begin with placing the first piece. Take the plunge. Play a game. Enter Terra Incognita.
Start an infinite geographical puzzle. Explore your routine world in a way you wouldn’t even recognize. Study your city to discover something you had never imagined. Every piece of Terra Incognita you create can be the seed for a new puzzle or the newest addition to an expanding one.
TERRA INCOGNITA (TI) is played to cipher and decipher a city.
In TI, players map a collective incompleteness—a group hallucination of an imagined terrain. By building and interacting with their puzzle, players identify conflicts and fissures in their towns, explore unknown neighborhoods, play entertaining games, solve evolving mysteries, and fantasize about hidden geographies. TI can be a combined activist tool, an art piece and a discussion catalyst all in one.
By using or subverting the instructions in this newspaper, players can develop techniques of puzzle-making, and play games with their collected puzzle pieces. They can even invent new games and share the rules with others, potentially by adding documentation to the web. (Suggested tag:#TerraIncognita).
As an endless puzzle, TI hovers at an in-between level: neither electronic nor built. Neither fully local nor strictly global. Neither fully assembled or incomplete. TI can be personal and embodied. It can be played to recover the places that most affected you in your life. Or invent the city that you wish existed. This is a never-ending game that continuously pieces together a parallel world.
Saturday May 4th. Noon. Starting from 2141 Broadway and radiating outward from there.