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MODA’s current exhibition, Level Up: Pixels, Play, & Progress, includes a collection of games that inspire change, challenge norms, and shape our collective consciousness. Among them is Dot’s Home: a single-player game in which players assume the role of Dot (Dorthea) Hawkins, a young Black woman, as she decides whether to buy or sell her grandmother's beloved home and discovers what that means for her family.
Players’ decisions drive the game’s narrative, but they’re given limited choices. By forcing players to make difficult decisions, the game illustrates the effects of redlining and other similar discriminatory housing practices from the last 50 years, revealing how systemic racism intentionally restricts one’s freedom of choice.
On September 30, MODA will be joined in conversation by Dot’s Home Executive Producer, Luisa Dantas and Supervising Producer, Paige Wood, as they discuss their work with the game and the Rise-Home Stories Project, a collaboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates seeking to change our relationships to land, home, and race by transforming the stories we tell about them. Dantas and Wood will elaborate on the power of video games to raise awareness of important issues and inspire change, and they will share advice for those hoping to get involved in game development.
Afterwards, MODA will take questions from the audience.
Event Requirements
A Zoom account and a stable Internet connection are required for participation, and a knowledge of Dot’s Home is recommended. It can be downloaded for free at this link, or a complete gameplay walkthrough can be watched here.
The Zoom link for Game Changers will be emailed to all participants 30 minutes before the workshop begins. If you have trouble logging in, please reach out directly to the community coordinator for this course at maryk@museumofdesign.org.
Registration Fee: Registration for this event is free; just sign up by clicking the button below!
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Email Maryk@museumofdesign.org with any questions about the event.
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Brasilian-American filmmaker Luisa Dantas works at the intersection of storytelling, social justice, and cities. As a writer/director, her work spans both fiction and non-fiction content, including short films and feature-length documentary projects. Through her company, JoLu Productions, Luisa produces impact-driven multimedia content for an array of clients in the non-profit and private sectors.
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Page Wood is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and creative consultant. Born in Detroit, Paige has produced and/or co-written a number of critically-acclaimed documentary and narrative films since the start of her freelance career in 2018. Paige is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, an alumni of Firelight Media's 2018-2019 Impact Producer Cohort, as well as a 2019 Sundance Institute | Knight Foundation Program fellow.
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