09 | Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure – Green Media Mediography

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Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change

City- and empire-builders like Cities: Skylines totally simplify the climate crisis, if they address it at all. A new wave of titles are far more complex.

Lazzaro Felice

“This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed

Explained: The Future of Meat

Explained is a Netflix documentary series, tackeling different topics each week. This episode delves into meat production and explores sustainable alternatives.

Okja

Okja (2017) is a film made by filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho, who is also known for his environmental film Snowpiercer (2013). Okja tells the story of Mija and her genetically modified pet animal, Okja. Okja was created by the Mirando Corporation, who created a line of superpigs to try to solve world hunger and meat shortages.

F1: driving towards a greener future

The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has announced that Formula 1 is aiming to field a generation of a new power unit by 2025. Since growing concerns about the impact of human activity on the environment emerged from fans and critics, the FIA has launched an initiative to develop a 100% sustainable fuel. Their aim

Surviving Mars: Green Planet

“Build a sustainable colony in space.” The premise of Surviving Mars (2018) is simple, but the challenges presented in the game are not; the Red Planet is unforgiving and full of dangers. Your colonists are only safe in glass domes; both oxygen and water have to be gathered, refined and stored in metal structures; food

Costing the Earth

Costing the Earth is a environmental radio broadcast that airs on BBC Radio 4. The series describes itself as "Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet".

The handmaids tale

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale has re-entered the public more than three decades after its 1985 premiere, thanks to a praised Hulu series. The red dress and white hat have become recognisable in resistance movements all across the world as a result of recent legal crackdowns on reproductive freedoms. However, Atwood’s story contains more than just

Sleepless and Repeat until death

A Mongolian miner takes his sick daughter away from the heavily polluted city to see the shaman. Upon finding a new home with the reindeer herders in the forest, he learns that this world too, is changing. To convey the message of global warming, the music video incorporates the image and tale of the native

Avatar

Avatar is a science-fiction film set on the distant moon Pandora, where a team of humans has come establish a mining colony. The film uses the image of the Na'vi and their relationship with nature to put forward a message of environmentalism.

Fairphone

Fairphone is a company that builds smartphones using responsibly sourced material. The project offers a way to study the Empire of digital culture through a decolonial lens that addresses the longer histories of oppression and exploitation.

Elysium

Elysium tells the story of a future where the Earth has been driven to the brink of ruin, where the very wealthy have retreated to living on a man-made luxurious space station. The film touches upon multiple important issues such as health care, immigration, economic inequality, and environmental decay.

Phone Story

Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. The game seeks to make players into situated subjects aware of their place in the chain of power relations and the footprints of colonialism in our current global age.

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction franchise, that actively uses their storylines to explore contemporary political and social issues. They often focus on diplomacy across cultures and promoting collaborative approaches to problem-solving.

Reset Earth

Reset Earth aims to show young people the power of science, collaboration, and cooperation in sholving complex global challenges by highlighting the protection of the ozone layer through the Montreal Protocol Treaty.

Princess Mononoke

This Studio Ghibli film tells the story of the young prince Ashitaka who finds himself caught in a war between the old forest gods and a mining colony. The film discusses the negative implications of destroying nature for the sake of economic gain.

City Rain

City Rain lets the player take on the role of member of the Rescue And Intervention Non-Profit (RAIN) organization. The player has to help reorganize cities in order to make them become environmentally friendly.

World Rescue

World Rescue is a narrative, research-based video-game inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Through fast-paced gameplay set in Kenya, Norway, Brazil, India, and China, players meet and help five young heroes and help them solve global problems—such as displacement, disease, deforestation, drought, and pollution—at the community level.

Block’hood

Block’hood lets the player diversify and experiment on the building of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. The player has a plethora of building blocks available to him/her, which all have their ability to create unique neighborhoods when combined in different ways.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn takes place in a postacolytpic world in which mankind is not at the top of the food chain anymore. Robots and machines have taken over control of the world and it is up to mankind to survive in a world filled their own technical creations.

Pipe Trouble

Pipe Trouble lets the player take on the role of a gas company that has to lay down gas pipes. The puzzle game requires the player to build profitable gas pipes, by making them as short as possible, whilst taking in account what both the community and government think about the position of your gaspipes.

Factorio

Factorio is a game about creating a fully automized supply chain. The player has to build factories, mine resource and research technology whilst fending off enemies.

Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is set in a dystopian future in which a nuclear war devastated most of the planet. During the gameplay the awe for technology and Artificial Intelligence is presented as a religion.