Quel design pour (re)mettre la pensée en mouvement ? Conjuguer les effets de sensibilisation et de conscientisation dans RecovR

Abstract

Anchored in a research-creation project, this paper first distinguishes sensitization effects (related to affect and immersion) and conscientization effects (related to analysing and reflexivity). Confronting theoretical categories to a particular and practical design process shows that these effects can be profoundly intertwined in a specific game. The formalist analysis of RecovR allows to formulate a more general design idea for games for social change: favouring a chaotic design focusing on tensions between different effects could be a way to increase player’s awareness of social issues and to engage in prosocial behavior.

Keywords

• conscientisation
• narrative design
• expressive games
• narratology
• research-creation