Social Justice Game
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The Office of Human Rights hosts the Social Justice Game at an event for teens at the Glenarden branch library (8724 Glenarden Parkway). The game is a fun and engaging way to consider the systems of economic inequity that impact us and invites players to change the rules. What rules do we change? What rules do we let stay in place? And what does game play reveal to us about our choices IRL?
Come on out for a fun hour of play and discussion with the Glenarden branch library and OHR staff.
The game developer writes, "The Social Justice Game represents an educational parody of the game Monopoly, and more generally, of capitalism. This educational (or ‘serious’) game helps players experience systemic inequity in an embodied way. Unlike Monopoly, which assumes a level socioeconomic playing field, The Social Justice Game more closely reflects actual inequities under the current American economy. It leverages players' prior experience playing Monopoly by forcing them to pit their own expectations of 'fairness' against the economic pressures they experience in the game."
