Otrório: a storytelling game of imaginary places

Abstract

The territory of board games is surrounded by the logic of competition and production, whether in the tabletop versions of "Risk", "Catan" and "Monopoly", or even the scale of the building designed by Buckminster Fuller to house his "World Game". This essay is the report of a reverse engineering in Otrório, a group1 project developed in the Estúdio Vertical discipline, at Escola da Cidade. Through collective storytelling, the game attempts to imagine new ways of relating to the abstraction of the territory and to propose new ways of occupying the disputed field of entertainment. The essay is also a systematization of the materiality and immateriality design of the game, mapping both not only theoretical references but also an experience of producing architecture through other media.