Played where there are many microbiomes. Microculture is a social game that debuted at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2015, and was played over the course of a week by over two hundred visitors to the Media Lab Lounge. Microculture was also the featured game of the Museum of Natural History’s monthly Sci-Cafe in 2017.
Type
Experience & Game Design
Location
New York
Year
2015
Featured
SXSW 2015 x MIT Lounge
American Museum of Natural History Sci-Café, NY
Credits
Microculture is a collaboration between Parsons School of Design and the MIT Media Lab: David Kong, Colleen Macklin, Roula Gholmieh, Melanie Bossert, Jane Mcdonough. It was launched at the SXSW 2015 conference as part of the MIT Media Lab Lounge events.
About the work Join a flora… The game unfolds as a massively-multiplayer-collectable-card-icebreaker game: Participants are recruited by other players into a Microculture team – such as the skin flora, or gut flora, and are given the task of recruiting other players into their Microculture by following prompts on the cards. When the time is up, the biggest Microculture team wins.
