Ludic Liberation Lab
![[no title] 1975-6 by Constant (Constant A. Nieuwenhuys) 1920-2005](https://inciteseminarscom.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/lll.jpg?w=430)
Can play be political? Can games change the world? Is the entire social system just a rigged game whose rules we’ve made up long ago but forgot to change for the evolving future? It is through play that we learn the world as children, and by playing with it as adults that we can learn to liberate ourselves from its pretend constraints. Play expands our notions of what’s possible and brings us closer to the source of creation, helping us—through playful obfuscation—to better see things as they really are. Play is not only human (birds and electrons play too!) but humans are especially creative at it, having designed countless genres of challenge-based, symbolic activity to be engaged in for their own sake. From the Situationists International’s playful psychogeography of dérive to Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed to Monopoly’s anti-capitalist origin in The Landlord’s Game, a growing movement of social change and activist game designers are harnessing the ancient ludic tradition to teach political strategy, experiment with forms of collective liberation, and build a new revolutionary imaginary. In this charged time of class struggle and climate catastrophe, we urgently need each other to play!
Incite Seminars invites you to join Ludic Liberation Lab—a group to explore personally transformative and political games, game-based pedagogy, and playful facilitation techniques. We gather together to play and learn from a variety of game experiences, role plays and participatory simulations, theater exercises, and immersive and personal games as tools for political education and social change. Meetings include collective play, exploration of game mechanics and facilitation strategies, and collaborative design activities.
Place: Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Time: Second Thursday of every month, from 6:00-7:30pm. May meet on other additional days, if feeling extra playful.
Cost: Ludic Liberation Labs are free to join for Incite Seminars members and paid subscribers of the Lab Report. Tickets for drop-in participation range from $5-$45 depending on topic and facilitator.
Registration: Please fill out this form to join the group and receive updates of future events!
UPCOMING LABS:
May 12, 2022 – Solarpunk Futures
PAST LABS:
April 14, 2022 – Arcology World
March 10, 2022 – The Transition Year
February 10, 2022 – Word Games
December 9, 2021 – becoming SURREALPUNK!
November 11, 2021 – Your Fortunate Way with Janet Howe
October 14, 2021 – Playing with MEMORY
September 9, 2021 – Playing with SYNCHRONICITY
August 12, 2021 – VERSIONS, a Creative Writing Game!
June 10, 2021 – Playing with TRANSLATION!
May 13, 2021 – Playing with ATTENTION!
May 5, 2021 – Playing with WASTE (again!) – Euro-friendly time
April 8, 2021 – Playing with WASTE
March 11, 2021 – BODY LANGUAGE w/ Thirdspace Somatics
February 11, 2021 – FAILING AT GENDER w/Indigo Esmonde
January 14, 2021 – Playing with Our Best-Laid Plans
December 10, 2020 –CONVERSATION GAMES w/ Aaron Finbloom
November 12, 2020 – Playing with RULES
October 8, 2020 – MIND GAMES w/ Sir Lyra Hill
September 10, 2020 – Getting Birdy w/KOSMOLOGYM
August 13, 2020 – Playing with DESIRE
July 9, 2020 – Philosophy Games w/IKANTKOAN
June 11, 2020 – Anti-Racism Slumber Party
May 14, 2020 – Becoming Sovereignly Useless (playing with KNOWING)
April 9, 2020 – Playing with Quarantine TIME
March 12, 2020 – Chance, Change & the Eternal Return
February 6, 2020 – Prefiguring the Post-Capitalist Playground. . .
Ludic Liberation Lab
One-Time Participation
$15.00
Venmo @inciteseminars
Make a one-time charitable donation!
Please pitch in for a participant who can’t otherwise afford a seminar but is in need of a creative, emotional, or intellectual boost. You can increase your donation by “buying” more than one $5 increment. Any amount helps. Thank you very much.
$5.00
Incite Seminars 