Sleepover Jenga
TEAM: Stavroula Anyfanti, Nikolaos Bountas, Giorgos Chrysoulis, Christina Giannaki
Social interaction has always been a driving force in societies. Especially in today’s alienated cities, there is an observable trend of people trying to reinvent the lost sociality of many everyday activities. They come together to cook and eat, to exercise and do sports, to play music and produce art. Simply being with others and doing things together is something that we almost lost and now we want back.
Having the above in mind we remembered our childhood sleepovers and realised thatsleeping can be a social experience too. So, we came up with a board game which is alsoa place to sleep:
The Sleepover Jenga hotel edition
About:
This is a game inspired by the well-known “Jenga” board games series. In fact it is a room-sized, fluffy, truth or dare Jenga, designed escpecially for sleepovers. Its parts are originally playful and funny challenges and interesting “get-to- know each-other” questions that turn into custom made furniture during the game and become the very beds, players will sleep in when the game is over.
The means…:
The whole game is easy to manufacture on your own even with different variations, or alternatively someone could purchase it and play with friends, but what we have envisaged is something quite different, a whole new social sleeping experience. Our concept of the Sleepover Jenga is only possible through an agency with an online application where anyone, from a spare room owner to a hotel director, can make one or more rooms available for the game, with or without charge. Potential players, can choose those rooms through a map and then make groups with others, through their profiles in the application. In this way a network of people, who come together to play and sleep, is created.
…to an end:
Innovation and new ideas come from re-thinking and re-imagining regular and conventional things. The Sleepover Jenga is just one way to combine social sleeping habbits with a specific board game, though there could be many others. The basic idea behind it is to create and manage sleeping space in a playful and sociable way. And we hope to spread this idea.