Gamecity Impulse: Games for Political Action

Gamecity Impulse: The Joy and Magic of Games for Political Action: Building All Will Rise

How can we connect game development and political activism? Find out more in our next Gamecity Impulse.

Games offer players a safe space to experience complexity, explore ideas, and test their boundaries. They invite us to question and to imagine alternatives. And Games give us the freedom to explore why our actions can be meaningful. This is where political power begins. 

In our next Gamecity Impulse, we want to take a closer look at games for political action and their meanings. 

Meet our Speaker

Joost Vervoort, is Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination at Utrecht University and Impact Director for the indie game All Will Rise. Joost has a long career of working on the imagination of better futures, and how such imaginations can impact society in the present, in the context of sustainability. For the last three years he has worked on All Will Rise, a game about taking a billionaire to court for the destruction of a river, with a team of veteran game designers. All Will Rise has a public demo and kickstarter out, and the game tries to connect commercial game design with radical politics and action.

He will give us an insight in his talk "The joy and magic of games for political action: building All Will Rise" about his experiences and learnings in creating a game for political action.  

This event will not be streamed live publicly, but will take place in a closed online room for all registered participants. Please find the Zoom link to participate in your registration under "location", and we will send the link to you shortly before the event starts.

Please join the Zoom room on April 15, 5 pm(opens in a new tab).