Let’s Play

2024

with Eclipse Gaming Café and community contributors

Games are a starting point for connection — they tap into deep and varied emotional wells. In the spirit of this connection, CALC partnered with our Pomfret Street neighbor, Eclipse Gaming Cafe, to explore games as a tool for observation and relationship-building. For this exhibit, we used what already exists, like the earliest (and often most fun!) examples of games. Community members were invited to contribute stories and objects related to game play at all ages and life stages. Through interactive displays modeled on different styles of play, we explored ways that games can embody escape, competition, collaboration, experimentation, curiosity, and even invention.