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TOURNAMENT in EAT IT! City Simulator

Tijd: vanaf 12:00 uur tot 18:00 uur

Wolfart ProjectSpaces would like to invite you to a Sunday TOURNAMENT in EAT IT! City Simulator game by Selena Savic

Two teams will play on a board designed as an analogue version of the video game “Sim City”. The playing field of the cityscape will be set by parameters determined from an online database. Of course there will be special awards for the winning teams!

EAT IT! City Simulator game is developed as an attempt to structure and analyse current problems in urban planning, and more general problems of power distribution, through the example of food industry and its’ main interest group, the supermarkets.

This is a two player game in which the players assume the roles of urban planners. They zone the area and enforce political and corporate interests they represent upon the space. The game exposes the conflict and confrontations of public and private interests. Operating with elementary urban planning tools, it harbours an awareness of the power structures involved. While one player is representing the side of micro economies, securing space for open markets, the other one is trying to occupy all commercial zones with supermarkets.

Selena Savic’s work is concerned with social organization and problems of centralized distribution systems.  With an analytic approach turned to the question of who can produce and consume in today’s corporate economy, and through deconstructing an industry’s chain of capitalization, offering an overview of the current condition of power structures.