Humans vs. Mosquitoes
Yale’s School of Public Health posted an article about Humans vs. Mosquitoes.
Justin Benn from Vivo Media was able to photograph a bit of a playtest for the tabletop edition of Humans vs. Mosquitoes that was played in Durban at COP-17.
We had a lot of fun playtesting the field version of Humans Vs. Mosquitoes at Parsons with children from SPACE, Quest2Learn and MOUSE Squad.
Lauren Graham and Pablo Suarez traveled to South Africa for the COP17 in Durban. They played the table top version of our Human vs. Mosquitoes game with Ugandan Parliamentarians and Red Cross staff (pictured here).
Read her post all about it on the Yale School of Forestry Blog.
Below: Argentinean senator and [...]
The New Yorkers spent the weekend in New Haven to hash out the game. Here’s a video of us testing out the outdoor version after we had prototyped a paper version. Mosquitoes on the left, humans on the right!
About
This game was developed in Fall 2011 by a team of graduate students and faculty at Yale University and Parsons The New School for Design for the Red Cross Red Crescent to use in the field to educate children about vector borne diseases and climate change. This game showcases innovative teaching tools in the field. Playing the game will allow children and policy makers alike to understand and engage on an emotional level with complex and abstract concepts of climate change and disease transmission.
Humans vs. Mosquitoes by Clay Ewing, Lien Tran, Mohini Freya Dutta, Ben Norskov, Eulani Labay, Sophia Colantonio, Lauren Graham, Vanessa Lamers, and Kanchan Shrestha is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
