Flourish
The Bachelor’s project «Flourish» is an experimental team management game about life in a queer-feminist future. In a world without any existential conflicts, interpersonal relationships take centre stage. Inspired by more-than-human species, the game challenges patriarchal patterns and gestures in existing strategy games and instead advocates a non-hierarchical, collective-based organisational structure. This comes across particularly in the way the four main protagonists are portrayed in terms of their assigned roles and character traits.
A call for radical tenderness and hope: whether this speculative proposal for social coexistence can persist, can only be tested in the situations arising in the game itself.
