Battle of Symbols

Look what I just found in my archives. The “Urban Chess Game” which was played during a workshop in December 2008 at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart and hosted by Vinca and Gon from Metahaven. We were split in 2 teams. The black and the white team, of course. We would then design a system of symbols which would represent the traditional chess figures and start playing by using the chessboard on googlemaps and hanging A1 Posters (chessfigures) in the city. Our concept was to use characteristics of the city that was on our side of the board. See what the black team had to offer:

February 15th, 2010 | Entry Filed under: Graphic