| Description | The Ward Game is an emergent, pervasive game played by high school senior English classes for 30 consecutive days in the springs of 2012 and 2013. Players were immersed into the world of Ken Kesey's asylum from his classic novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The game recasts the novel study as an embodied, multimodal experience and transmits the novel's critique of the behaviorist principles that underpin many post-industrial institutions; most notably, schools. The session looks at specific elements of game design and mechanics, the impact on the student-players and its wider implications to education. |
