Author: fredd

Dublin Digital hub

Dublin Digital hub

Two days of co-design and exploration with legrandjeu and a group of enthusiasts commoners in the hart of Dublin. Perfectly organised by John Lynch and Taja Naidoo at the Dublin Digital Hub that guested us. Big stories from day one, that I will post here 

IUAV Venice

IUAV Venice

Le Grand Jeu has been invited to perform at IUAV in Venice, for a master class to U-Rise students. It has been a very interesting meeting. The U-Rise master focuses on Urban Regeneration, and has been quite a ride to propose to master students bottom-up 

Le Jeu on Medium

Le Jeu on Medium

Raffaella published an interesting view over the game on Medium com.

She writes:

After 3 years of co-design of the game our goal is to use it to open our mind to the concept of crypto businesses: what kind of organizations can they enable? How can we use it to create a different kind of economy: fairer, transparent, sustainable on the long run? In an interesting post M.Maples stated “blockchains and crypto businesses can drive the standard of living forward even faster, by creating a new type of abundance centered around the wealth of the Commons. But we have to think bigger, beyond traditional corporate structures. We need 21st Century JP Morgans, Rockefellers, and Carnegies”. When we started to design the game we were following the illustrious example of Elisabeth Phillips that actually designed Landlord’s Game, aka Monopoli, as a protest against the big monopolists of her time — people like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.

You can find her whole article here: https://medium.com/@r.rovida81/le-grand-jeu-is-a-hands-on-tool-to-co-design-sustainable-micro-economies-empowered-by-261ee906decf

a worth read!

Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab

Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab

18 of November, in New Taipei Town, Fred was a guest of the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab for a day workshop- jam session- on tactics for involvement and strategies for co-design. He was traveling to Taiwan together with a good representative of the dyne.org crew. 

Dark Matter Games, Venice Biennale

Dark Matter Games, Venice Biennale

LGJ was invited to participate to Dark Matter Games , a coproduction of SALE Doks and Workspacebrussels, a flemish organisation based in Bruxelles that is interested in social/art/interventions. “Dark Matter Games” is an art project that aims to develop and present innovative and socially engaged art 

Le Grand Jeu featured on CIID website

“Elegantly simple in its design, but remarkably complex in its mechanics”

http://ciid.dk/research/explorations/le-grand-jeu/

@GANG CITY

@GANG CITY

We are happy to participate to Venice Architecture Biennale, as side event of a special program of activities and a interesting exhibit named Gang City. Is a space curated by Fabio Armao from the Politecnico di Torino, (University of Turin) the exhibition aims to explore the phenomena of gangs from a anthropological and urbanistic eye.

In this context we are going to introduce “le Gand Jeu”, with some precise adaptations of our games geared towards the simulation of eco-social flows of values and commodities in the dystopian world of city gangs.

Hello world!

Setting up the web site for ¨Le Grand Jeu¨ adventure. Some design glitches corrected logo: done (madu) legacy with iteration 7 on the go (fredd & raffa) thinking and tinkering done.. iteration 7 package download and git (fredd) on the go backsite hardening (firegarden) keep