Cultural Memory Game: Cultural memory in the context of community resilience

The game was designed and developed in the project "European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network" within the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, focusing on cultural memory in the context of disasters. Nowadays a thriving metropolis, an anonymous city Cultural Memory Game is set in, witnessed a severe disaster almost a century ago. However, with an influx of new people and no major disaster having occurred since then, players (assuming the roles of city inhabitants) are blissfully neglecting any need for implementing prevention and preparedness measures… until the next disaster strikes.

This game draws on the concept of cultural memory as the key factor contributing to community resilience. The bits and pieces of past catastrophic events are scattered around the city, offering prompts to those who are ready to relate facts.