Students in the UDIST course Xenoludology invite members of the CCA community and the public to stop by room 200 on Thursday, December 7, and Monday, December 11, between noon and 3pm, to take a break from finals and play board games they designed.

The course Xenoludology stakes out a new creative discipline at the nexus of game design and art-making. Students begin by studying a range of ancient abstract strategy games and spend the semester reinterpreting them as speculative sculptures and art objects that might be more at home in the 22nd Century. Artwork from other Room 200 classes will also be on exhibit on a rolling basis between December 7 and 11.

Xenoludology students include Loki Alzhin, Derek Cho, Arwen Creswell, Katiana Guillen, Marshall Hu, Marley James, Andy Lin, Ren Lo, Zoe Loa, Jackson Mayers, Keana Palacios, Carolina Quintanilha Stancati, Erika Wahlberg, Jingyi Wu, Hannes Zhang, and Kevin Zhong.

This event is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

Image: Game sculpture-in-progress by Industrial Design student Derek Cho.