Can Games Make a better Future? We are convinced they can! And that is what the project
Enter Africa is all about. It encourages us to use game thinking as a tool to address everyday challenges in Subsaharan Africa.
Interdisciplinary teams including architects, urban planners, IT experts and artists in 15 African cities create location-based games – playable on mobile phones. The games anticipate our cities’ transformation processes and envision future scenarios: Which challenges for infrastructure, culture and the environment emerge? How can they be experienced and solved in a playful way?
Out of these 15 visions, the teams identify joint topics for Sub-Saharan Africa - and create one analogue African game with a focus on borderlessness and the promotion of African cultures. This process has generated a network of creative, innovative, young professionals across the African continent – the Enter Africa Community. Together, we use games and game thinking to realize our visions for Africa’s future.
Enter Africa is a project by the Goethe-Institut. It involves many partners – game design and gamification experts from Ethiopia and Germany as well as organizations from different African countries.
During the process of Enter Africa a lot of stories were created and born: personal ones and the stories of the locations based games and the megagame. We would like to tell these stories during our stage presentation, answer your questions, get in touch with you and get your feedback!
