Project Update: Governable Space Makers Fellowship
On this call, we will be joined by the members of the current Governable Spacemakers Fellowship to share an update on their work with the Metagov Community!
The team includes: Jenny Liu Zhang (Digital Artist), Amanda Nicole Curtis (Speculative Digital Ethnographer), and Joanna Rivera-Carlisle (Digital Governance Engineer).
In this call, we’ll introduce each fellow, the broader Plot Twisters project, the foundations of the Small Hassles Court (including our approaches to self-governance and interpersonal conflict resolution), and then a group discussion. .
Since 2020, Plot Twisters has been developing Twisterland, an online game world fostering self-reflection and emotional literacy through therapeutic minigames. Our design collective, made up of mostly women and POC from diverse walks of life, identity backgrounds, and skill sets, has spent five years conducting trauma-informed and interdisciplinary research, developing concept art, and designing game mechanics. Through the Governable Space-Makers fellowship, the three of us are representing the broader Plot Twisters team to build our team’s first minigame, the “Small Hassles Court,” which will explore how to playfully emerge governance in an online space.
For more information about the Governable Space Makers Fellowship, see our announcement on our blog: https://metagov.substack.com/p/announcing-the-metagov-governable
About Community Calls: Metagov Community Calls are informal discussion-based, peer-learning, or tool play-test calls that can be proposed, hosted, and facilitated by any member of the Metagov community.
The format may vary according to whether the call is a group discussion or a tool play-test; however, a standard format might entail a ~10 minute introduction to the topic by the host followed by the group discussion (based on 3-5 questions prepared by the host) or play-test experience. Check out this guide for how to Propose & Host a Community Call: https://metagov.pubpub.org/pub/0s838ukp/release/1