GAMING GLOBAL RESILIENCEI had the pleasure of exchanging ideas this weekend with
Critt Jarvis, formerly of
Enterra Solutions and
Dr. Barnett's original webmaster (duties now ably carried out by
Sean Meade). Critt is embarked on an exciting developmental project with
Dave Davison, to create
an international relations game that reflects critical concepts from
The Pentagon's New Map along with Development in a Box and emergent principles like
resilience.
Is this game
Risk for futurist wonks ? Critt's vision:
"For me, I see a MMPORG designed to allow participatory experience in learning to make global connections. The goal? Experiment in a virtual world, influenced by current events in-game and then be inspired to try it in real life. Educational, inspirational. Now that would be a conversation worth creating"Critt emailed me a copy of the conceptual core of the game " The Basic Cultural Unit " for commentary which I gave, plus the feedback of a select group of my students. As soon as I can figure out how to repost the image here from a PDF file into blogger, I'll solicit the input of Zenpundit readers.Ah, my kingdom for a webmaster....