from/to | 5 weeks course on 'play as a platform' | Apr-May 10 | tutor: Jenny Althoff
design group: Nina Bačun, Mahmoud Keshavarz
Inspired by 'mail art', we chose the postal service as a medium to engage new players, expanding duration of the play, testing a notion of making decision with dependency on an external playmate and collecting stories. To this end, we designed a kit, including an illustrative calendar, postal stamps, some random addresses, blank labels for writing new addresses and short instruction. We started the process at the end of April 2010 and now the kit is in its journey.
You receive the kit, and then you make a decision upon to weather, for example: 'I will send the kit when weather is rainy, sunny, 11 Celsius, or your own decision which you can write or draw'. Then you choose a playmate and send the kit to him/her by the day which that decision you made already, will be happen by weather.
Indeed, in this process, the time of your action to play, it could be extend by weather as an external playmate. Players have to wait, not for minutes which is common in conventional games, but for days or even several months.
