Memory must not be lost: "Progetto Ustica" and civically-engaged games

Gabriele Ferri; Mauro Salvador; Ben A.M. Schouten; Ivan Venturi

doi:10.1145/3130859.3131434

Memory must not be lost: "Progetto Ustica" and civically-engaged games

Gabriele Ferri, Mauro Salvador, Ben A.M. Schouten, Ivan Venturi

Civic Interaction Design

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Progetto Ustica is an experiment in "civically-engaged game design" and addresses the Ustica Massacre ("Strage di Ustica"), where 81 people lost their lives as an air-to-air missile hit a civilian aircraft in 1980. Progetto Ustica has been developed as part of an Action Research effort with the objective of preserving and transmitting the historical memory of the event. With this post-mortem essay, we reflect on the game design challenges that Progetto Ustica faced, we introduce different conceptualizations of "memory" emerging from our design practice, and we synthesize some lessons learned (implications for design) towards other "civically-engaged games" for socio-cultural heritage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts
Subtitle of host publication	extended abstracts publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	87-97
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450351119
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131434
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	CHI PLAY '17: the annual symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 15 Oct 2017 → 18 Oct 2017

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Conference	CHI PLAY '17
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	15/10/17 → 18/10/17

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Ferri, G, Salvador, M, Schouten, BAM & Venturi, I 2017, Memory must not be lost: "Progetto Ustica" and civically-engaged games. in CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts: extended abstracts publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play . Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 87-97, CHI PLAY '17, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15/10/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131434

Memory must not be lost: "Progetto Ustica" and civically-engaged games. / Ferri, Gabriele; Salvador, Mauro; Schouten, Ben A.M. et al.
CHI PLAY '17 extended abstracts: extended abstracts publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play . New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 87-97.

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