1. The document discusses challenges in generating empathy and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, including a lack of empathy, an inability to comprehend numbers of losses, inaccessible information, and social media enabling the spread of hate. 2. It explores using games and role-playing to help Israeli teenagers experience life for Palestinians, with checkpoints and restrictions mapped onto cities to visualize limitations. 3. The goal is to cultivate respect and change dialogue by increasing knowledge, making information transparent, transforming language, and facilitating more informed conversation through empathy.

1. People's rights are
absolute & universal,
either equality or
nothing! -
Ronnie Barkan

2. Navit.
Desert Born.
Israeli.
Designer.
HUGE.

3. WELCOME TO THE WEST BANK
New conversations. Old conflict.

4. The conflict is the
Status Quo.

5. I was 17 when Israel
signed a peace treaty
with Jordan.

6. I was 19 when Bus 18
exploded at Jerusalem
Central bus station.

7. I was 22 when the first
war broke out with Gaza.

8. Creating Israel While
Erasing Palestine.
The Atlas Of The Conflict: Malkit Shoshan.

10. A Reality.

11. Although numbers show us that Palestinian losses are
enormous in comparison with the Israeli ones, it does not
suffice to simply make a comparison of that kind. The point
is not to achieve an equality of losses. The point is to oppose
the destruction in all of its forms in the name of a livable
mode of co- habitation.
-Judith Butler-

12. Weekly Report.
05-10 March, 2015

13. 6
Palestinian civilians killed
14
Wounded
127
Incursions were conducted
in the West Bank
215
Palestinian civilians
arrested
4Universities were raided
100Houses raided

14. Others In The Space.

15. The Israeli Information
Center for Human Rights
Palestinian Center for
Human Rights
A legal center for
freedom of movement
Israeli soldiers talk about
the occupied territories
A magazine that provides fresh,
on-the-ground reporting &
analysis of events in Israel &
Palestine.
A collective of Israeli and international
photographers, who believe that
photography is a vehicle for social &
political change.

16. No Magical
Thinking.

17. Another.
Summer.
War.

18. Signs of unprecedented
hate on social media.

20. Cultivate respect & change
the dialogue between
Israelis and palestine
about the conflict.
The Challenge.

21. I’m Working On
A Game.

22. -Katie Salen-
‘A system in which players engage in an
artificial conflict, defined by rules,
that results in quantifiable outcome.’

23. The Rules:
1. A Game Is A System
2. It Is Artificial
3. It Has Players
4. It Has Conflict
5. It Has Rules
6. Quantifiable Outcome

24. But My Game Is
A Serious Game.

25. -Mary Flanagan-
‘Games designed for artistic, political, and social
critique or intervention, in order to propose ways of
understanding larger cultural issues as well as the games
themselves.’

26. Case Studies That
Generated Change.

27. Foldit.
Creating a major breakthrough in the AIDS research field

28. RecycleBank.
Gamification to incentivize recycling

29. FreeRice.
Feeding the hungry by quizzing the intellect

30. SPENT.
Online game about surviving poverty

31. ONE MAPS. TWO STORIES.
WELCOME TO THE WEST BANK

32. Israel Palestine

33. Israel Palestine

34. Population: Mixed
272,181
Hifa
Population: Palestinian
126,132
Nablus

35. Overview.

36. 1. Played on your phone.
3. Historical facts about
land and its original owners.
2. A user chooses to walk in
foreign city to in order to learn
about the life in it.
Al- Mas’udiyya
Was a Palestinian viallge in the jaffa Subdistrict.
It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War
in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was
located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km
south of the al-'Awja River. The village was
previously known as Summayl.
WELCOME.
Population: Palestinian
WELCOME: A SILWAN STORY
Silwan
A village near the natural spring outside southeast of
the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem since the
medieval period. It lies in East Jerusalem and became
an exclusively Palestinian neighborhood after the
1948 war.
Population: Palestinian

37. 5. Statistical Data visualized.
WELCOME.
Yotam Merav, 14
Kibbuts Zikim
A testimony on rocket attack- 2015
I was at the incident in which Tzlil and
Yarden were injured. We were in third grade
and were playing Frisbee on the grass. I saw
the Qassam in the air, flying toward us. No one
knew what to do. We didn’t know whether to
run or to stay where we were. We had about
three or four seconds to respond and we simply
began to run.
“
4. Personal stories & testimonies
6. Physical barrier such as
checkpoints mapped virtually
on to the map of a foreign city to
visualize life their.

38. Israeli Teenagers.
14 and up.
Youth movement.
School curriculum.
The Audience.

39. 1. Lack Of Empathy.
2. Inability To Experience Numbers.
3. Information Is Unaccessible
4. Social Media Enabling
Dissemination Of Hate.

40. Lack Of Empathy
& Ignorance To The
Suffering Of Others.
Problem 1:

41. Empathy
Is the experience of understanding another person's condition
from their perspective. It is making less distinct the differences
between the self and the other.

42. "Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to
care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions
in which the loss would matter does the value of the life
appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for
the life that matters"
-Judith Butler-

43. Role play.

44. Silwan is home to a large and largely poor Palestinian population that
is gravely underserved by state and municipal bodies. There are a total
of eight elementary schools. There are zero public playgrounds. It is
also inhabited by a small-but-visible Jewish settler population
supported by Israeli governmental funds and services. Houses and
other structures in Silwan are built without permits, because
Palestinians are virtually never granted building permits You have
been held 30 days in solitary confinement, and after being beaten with
a chair, held taunted with a knife, forced to stay awake, and otherwise
abused, you are released from prison, but your punishment continues:
you are under house arrest, indefinitely, and is not allowed to go to
school. You are afraid that you will miss the end of his 9th grade year.
Residence: Silwan, East Jerusalem
Name: Suhaib Alawar
Age: 14.5
Select
3

45. You are interrogated because of a suspision of teaching boys in your
village how to build Molotov Cocktails, which you deny. During the
interrogation you are kept in a room that stinks of feces and rotten food.
You are hit with a chair and threatened with a knife. You are also told
that if you did not admit to the charges against you, that you would be
"taken to an electric chair to help you." You-
A Silwan Story
3 of 16
or Admit to the charges
& realised home
Deny you are guilty
& stay for 10 days.

46. Information Is Hidden
& Inaccessible
Problem 2:

47. Visualizing
information.

48. QuantitativeQualitative

49. First Day In A UN
School In Ramallah.
A report about
segregated roads

51. Data To
Expose Numbers.

52. The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.
FIXED CHECPOINTS
FLYING CHECKPOINTS
AS OF 2014
AS OF 2013
WITHIN THE
WEST BANK
STAFFED
REGULARLY
IN H2
(HEBRON)
99
256
59 3317

53. Data To
Tell Stories.

54. Palestinians under the age
of 18 are detained in the
occupied territories annually.
Suhaib Alawar, 14
Read his story.
700

55. The Inability To
Experience Numbers.
Problem 3:

56. ‘It is always possible to listen to such numbers and set them
aside, or listen to the numbers but hear something other
than numbers, or listen to the numbers and let them
function as numbers with no referential force.’
-Judith Butler-

57. Juxtapositioning
2 maps.

58. AUDIENCE
DISTANCE
REALITY
Bridging The Gap.

59. Getting your location
WELCOME. WELCOME.
Jabotinsky 3, Tel Aviv
Explore Palestinian cities
Change location

60. WELCOME.
Yotam Merav, 14
Kibbuts Zikim
Population:
Palestinian
126,132
Nablus
‫ن‬‫ا‬‫ب‬‫ل‬‫س‬
Start Walking
Population:
Mixed
272,181
Hifa
‫ח‬‫י‬‫פ‬‫ה‬
WELCOME.
Yotam Merav, 14
Kibbuts Zikim
Start Walking
Hebron (H1)
Population:
126,132
600
‫ח‬‫ב‬‫ר‬‫ו‬‫ן‬
Population:
Jewish
Hebron (H2)

61. WELCOME.
Explore Palestinian cities
Change location
Explore Palestinian cities
0.1 Miles left
0.4 Miles left
0.1
Miles
left
0.7
Miles
left
Ramallah
BeithLehem
Jericho
Jenin
Mayor : Vera Baboun
Mayor : Hassan Saleh
Mayor : Janet Mikhail
Population: 25,000 | Palestinian
Population: 18,346 | Palestinian
Population: 27,092 | Palestinian
12
300
Mayor : Hadem Rida
Population : 260,004 | Palestinian
Filter by Location
Start walking
Start walking
0.4 Miles left300

62. You have reached
Qalandia checkpoint.
The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.
Kalandia is the main checkpoint between the
northern West Bank and Jerusalem. The
checkpoint is used by the Israeli military to control
Palestinian access to East Jerusalem and Israel.
You have reached
Qalandia checkpoint.
The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.
Start now
You have reached
Qalandia checkpoint.
The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.
Wait inline Take a detour Skip & go home

63. You have reached
Qalandia checkpoint.
WELCOME.
The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.
Wait inline Take a detour Skip & go home
WELCOME.
WELCOME TO THE WEST BANK
The West Bank checkpoint system is intended to
monitor Palestinian movement by foot or by
vehicles. The system isolates Palestinians from
each other, separating communities and making
the entry into towns and cities within the West
Bank almost inaccessible.

64. WELCOME:
Al- Mas’udiyya
Was a Palestinian viallge in the jaffa Subdistrict.
It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War
in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was
located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km
south of the al-'Awja River. The village was
previously known as Summayl.
WELCOME.
Population: Palestinian

65. Social Media Enabling
Dissemination Of Hate.
Problem 4:

66. Enabling sharing &
documenting in
realtime.

67. Age: 14.5
Vines from Checkpoint
Kalandia vines
Road 443
Huwwara
Huwwara
a-Za’ayem
Ariel
03.12.2015

68. Muhamad Chamon
3440 loops 24m
This is what my morning looked like
Oramerda • 2 minuts ago
Gentlemen just don't shell schools were children and women take refuge
even if there are alegedly 1000 reasons to do it
Jonathan Byron • 5 minutes ago
Israel mass murders, and if you say something you are antisemite, shame on

69. Age: 14.5
Vines from Checkpoint
Kalandia vines
Road 443
Huwwara
Huwwara
a-Za’ayem
Ariel
03.12.2015Teddy Pollak
Natanya
My Badges
My Tasks
Completed
Hebron Jenin
9
3Pending

70. Change Dialogue.

71. Making Information
Transparent & Digestible

72. Increasing Knowledge
& Awareness

73. Transforming The
Language

74. More Informed
Conversation

75. EMPATHY

76. Takeaways.

77. Data Is Imperative.

78. But Data Is Also Arguable.

79. Motivation Is A Challenge.

80. Language.

81. I Would Love Your Feedback.