S.P.A.C.E. Planetary Justice in Anthropogenic Times - A Media Arts Game for Wondering with Children and Land

S.P.A.C.E is a speculative media arts game designed to support children, educators, and communities to wonder, play, and co-create with Land, technologies, and the more-than-human world. Developed through the SWISP Lab residency Friends of the Secret Underground (FOSU), the game invites participants into immersive and sensorial engagements with ecological sites.

Grounded in justice-oriented pedagogies, S.P.A.C.E unfolds through five interlinked zones of inquiry:

• S: Site, Sight, Speculation
• P: Playful Pedagogies and Practices
• A: Artful Affect and Activisms
• C: Creating, Curiosity, Community
• E: Ecologies, Energies, Ethics

Each zone is a portal to media-rich provocations that blend soundscapes, light, video, and digital remixing with nature-based play and storytelling. Players remix site-based materials, imagine futures, and create speculative artworks that challenge anthropocentric logics and re-story place.

S.P.A.C.E supports curriculum innovation and transdisciplinary learning across art, science, and sustainability. It is ideal for museums, galleries, schools, and community learning contexts committed to planetary justice and creative inquiry.