DESIGN FUTURES LEXICON / FREE RENDER
OCTOPA’S JOURNEY
Information
– Authors: Casus Ludi, Design Friction, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO), Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo (AHO)
– In collaboration with Amphibious Trilogies
– Nature of the render: A narrative game-tool
Abstract
Octopa’s Journey is a narrative game-tool inviting the player to browse the futures of the Northern Sea Route. Playing with Future Design Words and extended-choreographies, the experience is the online counterpart of the physical Octopa toolkit.
RENDER IN DETAILS
Octopa’s Journey is branching narrative game exploring the many unexpected Arctic perspectives, and shaping them through words from the Design Futures Lexicon and Amphibious Trilogies extended-choreography movements.
Upon meeting Octopa, a sentient non-human anomaly, the player embarks on an amphibious journey along the Northern Sea Route. Jumping from an arctic fragment to another, Octopa and the player will face intriguing situations and weird moments. Together, they will have to make choices and then shape the alternative presents and futures of Northern Sea Route.
At the end of your journey, one will have learned about stakes related to the Northern Sea Route and reflect on one’s present project or practice and act on its futures.
