Center for Science and the Imagination | CSI Skill Tree: Signs of the Sojourner with Leigh Alexander and Mia Armstrong-López @imagineASU | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours 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 discuss “Signs of the Sojourner” (2020), a deck-building game about the aftermath of calamity, definitions of community, the dynamics of infrastructure and commerce, and how dialogue can serve as a foundation for building trust and forging meaningful relationships. It was developed by Echodog Games, directed by Dyala Kattan-Wright, with collaborators including Holly Rothrock, Zach Vinless, and Kevin Snow.
About our special guests:
Leigh Alexander is an award-winning writer working at the intersection of technology and storytelling. She is a narrative designer for video games, a fiction author, an acclaimed critic of play, media, and culture, and a consultant for how to tell stories through design and interactive media. She has written for games including "Reigns: Her Majesty," "Reigns: Game of Thrones," "Love Island," "Neo Cab," and "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine." Her fiction has appeared in Slate and the anthology "RESIST: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against," and her journalism and criticism have appeared in the BBC’s Radio 4, Slate, Gizmodo, The Guardian, and New York Magazine. Learn more at https://leighalexander.net.
Mia Armstrong-López is a managing editor at Arizona State University, where she coordinates editorial projects focused on health, science, and justice. She also collaborates with researchers to translate their work into essays and articles that are accessible to the general public. Her writing has been featured in national and international outlets including the New York Times, Slate, the Marshall Project, Letras Libres, Nexos, and Reforma. She has taught journalism, English, and writing at universities in Mexico and the U.S. and prisons in Arizona. She holds degrees in journalism and international relations from ASU and is a Fulbright García Robles grantee. Learn more at https://miaaarmstrong.com.
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 and sign up for email updates about publications, events, and projects at https://csi.asu.edu.
Thanks to Om Gawali for expert editing and postproduction.
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 discuss “Signs of the Sojourner” (2020), a deck-building game about the aftermath of calamity, definitions of community, the dynamics of infrastructure and commerce, and how dialogue can serve as a foundation for building trust and forging meaningful relationships. It was developed by Echodog Games, directed by Dyala Kattan-Wright, with collaborators including Holly Rothrock, Zach Vinless, and Kevin Snow.
About our special guests:
Leigh Alexander is an award-winning writer working at the intersection of technology and storytelling. She is a narrative designer for video games, a fiction author, an acclaimed critic of play, media, and culture, and a consultant for how to tell stories through design and interactive media. She has written for games including "Reigns: Her Majesty," "Reigns: Game of Thrones," "Love Island," "Neo Cab," and "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine." Her fiction has appeared in Slate and the anthology "RESIST: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against," and her journalism and criticism have appeared in the BBC’s Radio 4, Slate, Gizmodo, The Guardian, and New York Magazine. Learn more at https://leighalexander.net.
Mia Armstrong-López is a managing editor at Arizona State University, where she coordinates editorial projects focused on health, science, and justice. She also collaborates with researchers to translate their work into essays and articles that are accessible to the general public. Her writing has been featured in national and international outlets including the New York Times, Slate, the Marshall Project, Letras Libres, Nexos, and Reforma. She has taught journalism, English, and writing at universities in Mexico and the U.S. and prisons in Arizona. She holds degrees in journalism and international relations from ASU and is a Fulbright García Robles grantee. Learn more at https://miaaarmstrong.com.
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 and sign up for email updates about publications, events, and projects at https://csi.asu.edu.
Thanks to Om Gawali for expert editing and postproduction.
