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by Taylor Rodriguez and Mina Rafiee

Chaos out of Order

by Karen Chan

United States of Mind

by Taylor Rodriguez

Abortion Access Dart Board

by Ava Burke and Soomi Lee

In their words: "In response to this hostile climate of abortion access, we designed a game of darts that uses the spatial area of state-specific dartboards and the player’s relative distance from the board to elucidate the breadth and depth of abortion restrictions by state. The gameplay experience is meant to physically model the relative difficulty of attempting to get an abortion in a “supportive,” “neutral,” or “hostile” state. We aggregated data from a variety of sources, including the Guttmacher Institute’s database, Remapping Debate, and ThinkProgress, in order to come up with a core set of metrics that guided the design of each state’s dartboard and rule set. While this project will eventually include a different dartboard for every state, we began by focusing on three states to serve as case studies: New York (a relatively “easy” state); Texas (the focus of a pending Supreme Court decision in which the reproductive rights of 5.4 million women hang in the balance); and Louisiana (the state with the most stringent abortion restrictions). The game itself is meant to be fun (and a good way to take out one’s aggression about the abridging of women’s reproductive rights!) but also didactic and thought-provoking. We want players to come away from the experience both with a deeper understanding of how abortion restrictions function state by state, and with a renewed questioning of whether abortion can even still be considered “legal” when it is so heavily restricted."

Phone Usage

by Peiying Feng and Jessie Contour