16:10 RC12 inteR-sCale

Students: Yuxian Chen, Qinni Ge, Jing Cao, Yiqi Ji

Design: Luke Pearson, Sandra Youkhana

Theory: James Delaney

This game demonstrates how design decisions produce global impacts, affecting how we work towards a sustainable future. Players engage with a series of cities facing critical environmental issues, including London, Manila, and Chongqing, responding to air, water, and land contamination. Through a multi-scalar ‘long zoom’ game structure, the player navigates back and forth between molecular, urban, and planetary scales to instigate changes at one level that have consequences on the other.

By greening the molecular structures of concrete particles, opting for natural ventilation strategies in cities, and reducing plastic waste, player are given design agency to explore the city’s future impact on the environment at both the macro and micro, discovering how sustainability strategies create different impacts on climate, space and time.