Un libro sobre juegos de mesa como modelos sosiales.
La editorial Routledge Taylor & Francis Groupy continúa con su serie de libros sobre juegos de mesa (en inglés).
En este nuevo libro, Amabel Holland, autora de juegos y editora en Hollandspiele, explora las capacidades y limitaciones de los juegos de mesa con temática política o histórica para modelar sistemas humanos y formular argumentos sociales. Identifica dos enfoques principales: uno basado en la inmersión y la identificación para crear empatía, y otro que aplica Verfremdungseffekt (efecto de distanciamiento) para alejar a las personas de la temática y crear un espacio más reflexivo. En consecuencia, el texto también examina cuestiones sobre el papel de las personas en una partida donde sea necesaria su participación para modelar sistemas opresivos.
Cardboard ghosts
Amabel Hollnad
Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems.
Games can be used to model systems because they are themselves systems. Video games handle this under the hood and teach you as you play, but because board games are operated manually, and require the player to understand the system beforehand, they can be a valuable tool for recognizing, understanding, and critiquing real-world systems, including systems of oppression. These systems, often unseen and misunderstood, haunt our world. Board games turn these ghosts into pieces of cardboard we can see, touch, and manipulate.
Cardboard Ghosts: Using Physical Games to Model and Critique Systems explores both the capabilities and limitations of overtly political board games to model systems and make arguments. Two major approaches are considered and contrasted: one, built around immersion and identification, creates empathy. The other, applying the Verfremdungseffekt to distance the player from the game, creating space for reflection. Uncomfortable questions of player roles and complicity when modelling oppressive systems are examined.
Throughout this book, board game designer Amabel Holland draws connections to computer games, literature, theatre, television, music, film, and her own life, framing board games as an achingly human art form, albeit one still growing into its full potential. Anyone interested in that potential, or in the value of political art in today’s world, will find many provocative and enriching ideas within.
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