Shaping Culture Through Play

Play and culture develop hand in hand. This talk begins first by offering a practical framework where games can serve as playgrounds for new economic and governance mechanism and ends with a broader view of how play can be leveraged to shape our society.

SPEAKERS Wei-Li King (they/he) is a community organizer with a background in software engineering and systems thinking. His current interests have lead him out of the blockchain industry to pursue research at the intersection of game design, ecology and spirituality at the Center for Creative Inquiry.

Peter Lu is an independent game designer and artist. They work toward the deconstruction of the white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. Towards this end, their work tackles the personal and the political. pdlla.org.