Author Archive for: Cath
Entries by Cath
Cousin Metamaps
Toiling away on a project like Sembl can be lonely, so I was chuffed this week to make an acquaintance with Metamaps – or more particularly, Ishan Shapiro, one of its founders – and to discover some shared heritage. Sembl is a descendant of the Glass Bead Game, and its purpose – or one of them – is to […]
Peace is a bridge
Crafting an entry for the Peace App competition, I came to see the extent to which peace depends on stereophonic thinking – or dialogue in the radical sense deployed by Paulo Freire, David Bohm and so on. It didn’t surprise me – Charles (Sembl’s progenitor) is a kind of peace activist, intervening as he does in the realm of religious violence and global conflict. […]
Game of thrills
Highlights from The Museum Game during last Friday’s Night at the Museum, showing the teams, some crafty connections they made and, of course, who won.
Logo a go-go
The Sembl logo has been evolving for quite some time now but I feel it has finally settled. What do you reckon?
A game for 12
This post falls into the category of should-have-blogged-earlier. I designed a board for 12 players. It’s not one for the faint-hearted. This game has four rounds rather than the usual three, and rating all the sembls would be a four-part marathon – note that in Round 1 you only fill one node, and you never rate […]
On access and use –> cultural material and Sembl
A sample of images already in the Sembl system, and some notes on openness, of both cultural heritage material and of Sembl. In selecting seed material for Sembl, I look in collections that are: openly licensed and available to download in high-resolution with a preference for those that also provide: a persistent identifier – to […]
Amazing Amanda, Queen of Museum Game introductions
With some excitement, Cath shares the new video we made to introduce The Museum Game. One version for schools, another for adults. And a bloopers reel.
Cultivating conceptual propinquity
Dialogic thinking doesn’t only mean taking into account two different perspectives; it also means recognising the common ground between entities – what it is that makes them one. This post is a note about game mechanics to cultivate conceptual propinquity. In Sembl games, players form associations between pairs of objects or concepts. Evaluating others’ moves […]
Torus and lotus
Last year I posted about the gameboard designs we’re using in the Museum form of Sembl. On those boards, each team starts with their own seed node – so on the hex board there are a whopping six nodes not created by players. I wanted less space to be taken up on the board by […]