Center for Science and the Imagination | CSI Skill Tree: Mutazione with Pamela Carralero and Matthew Derby @imagineASU | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 32 minutes ago.
CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we take a close look at “Mutazione” (2019), a mutant soap opera and magical gardening game about living through environmental catastrophe, the healing power of music, the connections between social relations and gardens, the politics of knowledge production, and the simultaneous fragility and resilience of our communities and ecosystems. The game was developed by the Copenhagen-based studio Die Gute Fabrik and published by Akupara Games.
About our special guests:
Pamela Carralero is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Kettering University and a climate resilience practitioner. Her practice-based research focuses on building climate change resilience at the community level; her scholarship investigates how ecocriticism informs the communication and experience of climate risk. Learn more at https://www.pcarralero.com.
Matthew Derby is a writer and designer whose credits include the scripted podcast “Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind,” the feature film “Gone in the Night,” and “The Silent History,” an interactive novel designed and written for iOS devices. He has served as an editor at The Believer and is a game designer at Harmonix/Epic Games. Learn more at https://matthewderby.com.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination: The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu and follow the Center on Twitter at @imaginationASU.
CSI Skill Tree is a series that examines and celebrates how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in unfolding and interpreting stories. In this episode, we take a close look at “Mutazione” (2019), a mutant soap opera and magical gardening game about living through environmental catastrophe, the healing power of music, the connections between social relations and gardens, the politics of knowledge production, and the simultaneous fragility and resilience of our communities and ecosystems. The game was developed by the Copenhagen-based studio Die Gute Fabrik and published by Akupara Games.
About our special guests:
Pamela Carralero is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at Kettering University and a climate resilience practitioner. Her practice-based research focuses on building climate change resilience at the community level; her scholarship investigates how ecocriticism informs the communication and experience of climate risk. Learn more at https://www.pcarralero.com.
Matthew Derby is a writer and designer whose credits include the scripted podcast “Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind,” the feature film “Gone in the Night,” and “The Silent History,” an interactive novel designed and written for iOS devices. He has served as an editor at The Believer and is a game designer at Harmonix/Epic Games. Learn more at https://matthewderby.com.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination: The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu and follow the Center on Twitter at @imaginationASU.
