Christy Dena · @christydena
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One of the things I'm interested in is figuring out solutions to the tricky problems that come up when you're designing according to non-status-quo values and goals.

The following article by Matt Bell doesn't address this directly, but is part of the space. If you're doing something different and people are finding it difficult, how you can you make it work?

Link to his article (scroll down): mattbell.substack.com/p/42-man

#narrativedesign #emancipatorydesign #liberateddesigner

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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Talk by narrative designer Jen Coster on "It’s Not About You: Beyond the Hero’s Journey"

"...As we increasingly recognize the importance of collectivism and community over the actions of a lone hero, it’s time to explore a different narrative framework for the stories that we want to tell."

Youtube: youtu.be/Ka_zrkVVBuc

#narrativedesign #socialchange #emancipatorydesign #gamewriting #screenwriting

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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Checking out Ana Henrique's book (available for free download):

Designing Futures: How Can Ethics Shape Design Theory and Practice

"Design, in all its forms, seems to be at a point of reckoning. As it becomes increasingly clear that past solutions have not only failed but were flawed from the start, this research hopes to provide some ways in which we can look back, as well as forward."

anahenriques.eu/designingfutur

#emancipatorydesign #design #futures #ethics

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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I enjoyed reading this book on my trip:

“I consider the experimentalism of the art practices discussed in this book in this fashion, and I analyze how artists’ readiness to devise new forms and modes of making and circulating their art—or to utilize forms and techniques from other types of social practice—is meaningful to the politics of their practice and its articulation with collective struggles.” -- Jennifer Ponce de León

read.dukeupress.edu/books/book

#intermedia #emancipatorydesign #args

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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Hey, next week I'll be giving a short provocation at the Games Symposium for Oceania and the Asia Pacific organised by the ace team of Mahli-Ann Butt, Hugh Davies, Xavier Ho, and Chloe Yan Li.

The event is open to all, for free, in-person or online, and is in English and Chinese for those online.

I'll be talking about "Right Relations in Games Events & Funding" on Thurs.

gsoap.webflow.io/

#gamedev #gamefunding #rightrelations #gamesresearch #eventdesign #emancipatorydesign

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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Weee! Here is my latest writing: just in time for the next film's release, it is the design of about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Thank you for the editors of Vector, Jo Lindsay Walton and Polina Levontin.

This article continues my interest in how optional thinking can be encouraged through narrative design, and is part of my larger work as a narrative design activist. :)

I welcome your thoughts!

vector-bsfa.com/2023/06/01/int

#screenwriting #narrativedesign #emancipatorydesign #film

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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"Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation." micha cárdenas

dukeupress.edu/poetic-operatio

#gamedesign #poetics #emancipatorydesign #transofcolorpoetics #transstudies #decolonial

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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Helpful prompts for designers and researchers to regrow their relationship with themselves in their work. This is in the context of many learning the false belief that their practice is separate from the personal.

"Bodymind Check for Radical Research Created by Lauren Lin and sahibzada mayed"

LInk to doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1OB

#emancipatorydesign #design #gamedesign #narrativedesign #research

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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My latest piece is out! It is a personal review craft essay on Quentin Tarantino's film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.' It is in Randon Billings Noble's publication After the Art.

aftertheart.com/2023/03/28/onc

#screenwriting #emancipatorydesign #optionalthinking #Change #film

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Christy Dena · @christydena
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Looking forward to watching Theresa Jean Tanenbaum's talk on trans game studies:

"In this talk I argue that game design - like magic and activism - is a framework for invoking and materializing seemingly impossible desires for ourselves, and our world. Within the "magic circles" of both play and witchcraft we assert truths about the world that are decoupled from the often-arbitrary rules and power structures that govern daily life."

youtu.be/8P4wvZDn2Lk

#gamedesign #emancipatorydesign

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