The Equity Game
- aimantdh
- Apr 13, 2023
- 2 min read
A research project exploring privilege as tradeable currency through community gameplay in the form of a card game
Privilege has become a catch-phrase in our everyday lives. And as much as our society has gone forward in at least recognising it more, we’ve created into more of a label than an understanding.
This project started as a way to question the system of how we can exchange more than just services or tokens as a community but somehow be able to tokenise privilege in a simialr way. Such that even by giving away I’m gaining something - in this case gaining perspective.
But exchanging privilege provides an interesting idea - is it even possible? The entire reason for privilege is usually one's nature, nurture or context and can we even change that, should we? Hence the idea of gamifying it. What is privilege after all other than having different starting points for the same destination.
And further how do we quantify privilege? These were the questions I started with, and these were the core questions that made this project what it was.
At the end of the day privilege is an extension of a right that others have less of or lack. To quantify this, I categorised these into the following rights - Safety, Access, Authenticity, Energy and Community.
Rules of the Game:
Each player draws an identity card.
Based on the chosen Identity cards, tokens are distributed.
Players draw a situation card per turn
Each situation has a token cost to achive the task, or the player can take the negative outcome.
Each player can pick a situation card once in the game if they skip the next turn.
Survive Seven days with tokens for all categories in hand to win.
As privilege is something one learns more based on first hand experiences to know the nuances of what one is missing as compared to others. The identities are hence based on gender and sexualities from both first hand experiences and those of friends and ex-partners.
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