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Games 4 Amnesty

Team

Rob Boerman
Radoslav Gulekov
Lisa Maier
Fay Gramberg

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Description

Minigame16&17: Disturb the universe & Broken Phone (Chinese Whispers)

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DISTURB THE UNIVERSE

Speak up ideas that some might not agree with!
The idea of DISTURB THE UNIVERSE basically states “while I don’t agree or care for what you are saying, I do support your right to say it, for herein lies true freedom”.
We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything. I f we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books…
Had there been a literary censorship in Rome, we should have had today neither Horace, Juvenal, nor the philosophical works of Cicero. If Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Locke had not been free, England would have had neither poets nor philosophers…
BROKEN TELEPHONE GAME
It’s basically the same as the traditional old game of whispering a word or a sentence in one’s ear. Here you do it in your phone, the message is recorded and sent to the people who are playing the game right now. At the end:
– If the message/word is kept during the whole game everybody gets points.
– If the message/word is different at the end, you can see who broke the chain and loses points. The people before win points. The people after neither win or lose.

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