Game Remains is a vehicle for co-intentional collaboration, consensus building and problem solving through indigenous pedagogical frameworks for listening, speaking and performing. Using community strategies, collaborators engage a significant issue and co-determine a set of values and protocols to guide the logic and interactivity of the game in a manner that best articulates a shared vision of community agency. As a public ceremonial filter, the game transforms participants into musicians co-engaged in a community instrument of self-determination, with the ability to abstract the social, political, and economic characteristics of their locality and collectively imagine/sonify a more desirable future. Our vision is to use this work as an indigenous-led global visioning ceremony with the capacity to sonify the complex market-driven geospatial relationships and their associated values, perceptions and beliefs as a process for interrogating globalising systems and catalysing critical awareness and dialogue.
We seek to use Game Remains as a platform to engage social, political and economic processes in communities throughout the world. Our focus is on communities that have been destabilised by manufacturing and resource extraction industries in Mexico, Namibia, Vietnam and Norway.