How do you play this game? How does it work?īest: The game is played either virtually, digitally or in the real world with a set of cards. Q: “AfroRithms from the Future” is described as a design thinking, storytelling game that rejects a culturally Western framework for alternative futures that center BIPOC perspectives. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity. ![]() They took some time to talk about their game, Afrofuturism and the freedom they’ve found in casting aside a White supremacist point of view. Brooks is a communications professor at California State University East Bay an affiliate researcher with the Institute for the Future a research fellow with the Long Now Foundation a guest professor with Stanford’s design school and a co-director of the Community Futures School at the Museum of Children’s Arts in Oakland. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, the Indigenous Futures Institute and the Black Studies Project, this workshop allows guests to participate in and collaborate on the game.īest and Brooks are also co-founders of their AfroRithms Futures Group and co-hosts of their “The Afrofuturist Podcast.” Best is a writer/producer/director/actor (he played Jar Jar Binks in the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy and starred in the Broadway musical “Stomp”), lecturer at the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California, a senior fellow at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and a guest professor at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Thursday in room 208 of the Design & Innovation Building (space is limited and registration is required). They’re bringing their game to UC San Diego for their “AfroRithms from the Future: A Participatory Workshop” from 5 to 7 p.m. Like Alisha Wormsley’s billboard said, ‘There are Black people in the future.’” Part of that is centering us in the future. “The game is inspired by having Black, Indigenous and People of Color centered in the future of the algorithmic platforms, artificial intelligence, that we’re creating in the future. “We have this saying, ‘How do we go from algorithms of oppression to AfroRithms of liberation?’” says Brooks. With another co-creator, game designer and developer Eli Kosminsky, they’ve created this storytelling and world-building game to bring Afrofuturism into a communal experience that allows those who are typically excluded from the advantages of technology, to share their radical imaginings for the future. It’s all part of the game “AfroRithms from the Future,” co-created by Ahmed Best and Lonny J Avi Brooks. ![]() Worlds set in a future where the cultures and stories of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) are centered.
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