{"id":417,"date":"2021-01-01T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/?post_type=projekt&p=417"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:18:23","slug":"trash-games","status":"publish","type":"projekt","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/project\/trash-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash Games: Playing with the Circular Economy Transition at the Haus der Materialisierung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Funded by the Berlin University Alliance 2021-2022 call for Experimental Science Communication Laboratories<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project \u201cTrash Games: Playing with the Circular Economy Transition at the HdM<\/strong>\u201d has brought together the Chair of Circular Economy and Recycling Technologies<\/a> (CERT, Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin) and the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology<\/a> (Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin) to develop and explore games and game design as formats of public engagement with the Circular Economy (CE). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of a circular economy<\/strong> goes beyond current top-down efforts to achieve sustainable development by extending the life of products and the materials they contain through their reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling.

In this project we have experimented with games as a special form of science communication<\/strong> enabling accessible, speculative and interactive forms of participation of non-homogeneous publics in complex topics.

In cooperation with actors of the civic platform \u201cHaus der Materialisierung<\/a>\u201d \u2013 part of the Haus der Statistik, flagship project for community-oriented neighborhood development in Berlin \u2013, as well as other circular economy initiatives from Berlin, we undertook a several months-long research process<\/strong>, resulting in the prototyping of a game<\/strong> that explores potentials and conflicts in the social transition to a collaboratively managed circular economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you could see the main results of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project team<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

– Vera Susanne Rotter (Project lead)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Tom\u00e1s Criado (Project co-lead)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Ignacio Far\u00edas (Project co-lead)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Isabel Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez (Research and Development)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Johannes Scholz (Project Coordination)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Petra Beck (Artistic research and documentation, game development)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Sebastian Quack (Game design)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Marisol Escorza (Graphic design)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Sophie Wulf (Student assistant)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Adriana Flores Franz (Video documentation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgement for the support in the project<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Johannes Bassler (Textilhafen Berlin \u2013 Berliner Stadtmission<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Simone Kellerhoff (Material Mafia<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Jens Peitan (MHKW Ruhleben \u2013 BSR<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Elena Sofia Stranges (Ort-Schafft-Material<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Frieder S\u00f6lling (Nochmall \u2013 BSR<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Nora Wilhelm (Mitkunstzentrale<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WASTE WHAT?<\/strong> A game on the many ways we can reuse stuff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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WASTE WHAT?<\/strong> is an open-source cooperative game, which explores how we can think about materials differently, trying out many ways to keep stuff in use. In the game you play as a material recovery initiative. Your goal is to creatively find new uses for discarded things, closing loops and reducing the amount of waste that is burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To download, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research process<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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