May 26, 2008 Leave a comment
Ten year old Kids in São Paulo playing the TEN Project’s first card game prototype.
May 24, 2008 Leave a comment
March 29, 2008 Leave a comment
Phase 2 is proving to be fun! São Paulo is bursting to the seams with arts, culture, urban vitality and warm-hearted people. Seven diverse kids have been sourced for the initial tests. The first prototype is now designed and is going into build this week. We need as many SMART ideas as possible (clever ideas about city improvement that might be of interest to kids, going on or in development anywhere) for the game cards, so if anyone knows of any, send them in to thetenproject@gmail.com. This paper game version is a prototype for a browser game called “MyCity2020”, in which kids choose a city and compete to make it the SMARTEST city in the world, by making fun stories, cartoons, music, rap etc. They can also make stories about things that are not yet smart and use them as weapons against their opponent’s cities. A local team of researchers and assistants have been networked to help source larger youth groups and more urban projects here and JT, Project Director has started VLOGGING his experiences in São Paulo and is posting them daily on the blog!
March 8, 2008 Leave a comment
TEN is happy to announce that we are out of phase one (gathering support, and ideas) and into phase two (game prototypes testing). So JT, Project Director has moved to Sao Paulo, our first test city, to test a prototype paper version of the game.
The test game is all about the kids making and voting on their own ‘smart-stories’ in any format (video, music, text, comics, etc) about what they are doing to assist professional urban projects.
There is also a documentary being made about TEN, so stay tuned for webcast diary postings on the blog. The documentary will include great footage of JT’s last day in LA, a mad rush to pack and make the flight to São Paulo because of running behind after a fantastic extended breakfast meeting with Sir Ken Robinson (featured TED speaker) about the project.
If anyone knows any useful contacts or fun people in São Paulo, please on the info to JT (email thetenproject@gmail.com)
