Can serious games help us to reimagine our political and economic system? How can we use them to make social themes tangible? Can we transform our city while playing? During our Common Play With Us! game nights we aim to discover the potential of serious games to help us reclaim the urban commons.Serious games raise awareness about specific topics, foster critical thinking and facilitate rational decision making and group consensus. We want to play games and share the tools that we discover by co-creating an online repository of serious games in order to talk about the urban commons.What dynamics will emerge if we reclaim ownership of public assets? How can we work together in a convergent way? And how do we make sure all of this is fun? These questions will be centre stage in the new editions of Common Play With Us!

Starting this January, we will use our events to play-test and discuss games that could fit this curated game repository. During these evenings, we will focus specifically on games that help us organise the city as a commons.

In this edition, we aim to create a common language to collaboratively design the public space. What are your desires for transforming your neighborhood? How can we describe our dreamed city by using as few words as possible? We will play-test REDESIRE, a serious game developed by Rezone and We Are Muesli, to try to answer these and more questions. Are you ready to explore a new language to describe your desires? Common play with us on the 20th of February. The doors are open to everyone!

Programme

20:00 - Welcome by Socrates Schouten (Chamber of Commons)

20:10 – Introduction to REDESIRE by Tessa Peters and Rolf van Boxmeer

20:20 - Game(s) Time!

21:20 - Reflections on game experiences

21:40 - Talk & drinks

English is spoken during this event (but not exclusively).Limited places are available for this game night. Admission is € 5, including a drink.