[spectre] agoraXchange for you

[geert]

From: Natalie Bookchin <natalie at action-tank.org>

Dear friends,

Please check out a new project by me and Jackie stevens.at
http://agoraXchange.net commissioned by the Tate Museum in London.

We really need your contributions!

Be forewarned that it is in the most preliminary of stages, and the 
forums for which I enlist you to join are not yet not the most user 
friendly, but we are (very very diligently) working on it.
But please! use them anyway. We need to hear what you have to say.

Have patience and enjoy!

natalie

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More formal info here:

  AgoraXchange is a forum for the exchange of ideas, where 
participants are inspired to work together on the rules, design, and 
code which will ultimately result in a game. Participants are 
encouraged to answer questions prompting them to make decisions about 
the game design and in the process explore political alternatives to 
the present global order by accommodating four initial decrees 
challenging present conventions for awarding nationality and wealth. 
Over the coming months, Natalie Bookchin and Jacqueline Stevens will 
implement various incentives intended to solicit further 
contributions.

An online conversation conducted between David Ross and Murat Ozbank 
will reflect on and inspire the initial game development phase of 
agoraXchange and will be posted as it evolves here at Tate Online.

  When the first phase of agoraXchange is complete, a committee of 
artists, activists, and political theorists will convene to review 
the contributions, and propose three distinct game prototypes. These 
prototypes will then be made available for further deliberation by 
agoraXchange participants. At the end of this process, a jury 
comprised of agoraXchange participants, will vote on the proposals 
and decide on the final game prototype and the game will be developed.