TEN’s First Birthday!!! 365 days of work and patience pays off

TEN is ONE today, and if 2008 is anything to go by, 2009 will be bursting with wonderful new developments for the project and results for MEGA-CITY HERO, the design of which is complete on schedule and with the technicians being built for online testing & reform through 2009…watch this space to see how São Paulo and New York are enjoying the game!

Slivers of São Paulo

São Paulo is in the mega-city elite. To have small splinters of it lodged in my consciousness wherever I go is a great fortune.

A Mega-city is a place where you can stand in the middle of human diversity, its failings and its extraordinary achievements, at arm’s reach from the vital pulse of the human condition. Read more of this post

The Clock Is Ticking…

What is The TEN Project all about? – An interview with TEN director John Tattersall

So TEN is about promoting things like recycling and reducing emissions?

No. We are about using technology, social networking, games, urban projects and story telling across all media to engender action and change in attitudes globally.

To use your example, reusing, reducing and recycling is crucial not because it can ever reduce carbon emission, toxins, emerging diseases, disparity of wealth and resource access to anything near safe levels, but because of something much more powerful: The action of reusing, reducing and recycling changes our attitudes to our life systems and our consumer roles. For this reason alone, it is a crucial program to institute in the children of any society. However, it is only one of a thousand possible programs required to significantly shift attitudes for the future. Read more of this post

TEN NEWS

Pangea film completed and lodged, thanks to wonderful contributions from Marc Downing, Celia Nicholas, Dena Jackson, Stacey Mather, Youth Empowerment Project Tortola, Sam Pietsch, Peter Goetz, The Crystal Stafford Project, Therese Fingleton, Hans Raffauf, and all the kids involved. Check out the movie at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQi9ua_BA4 Ten Project world tour completed. GSBI funding stage one accepted, stage two in progress. My Planet 2020 site being built. Game narrative writing resumes. Project director John Tattersall is moving to São Paulo (one of the target cities) for two months for game research, and mini-testing.