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Gavin Lee’s workshop group at Nightmarket ‘08 produced a Flash game highlighting the social costs of destruction. Using a Wii remote, users can drive a bulldozer through a landscape, knocking down trees and houses amid satisfying sounds of demolition. After the frenzied destruction, you are awarded points based on the number of displaced people and animals. As a founder of the “suhua bakery,” the successful web-based campaign that prevented the construction of a massive highway ythrough the pristine widlerness of Taiwan’s undeveloped east coast, Lee has taken advantage of the workshop and the ease of producing interactive games to draw attention to larger social issues by making the player a participant in the rampant destruction caused by reckless real estate developments.
. Leo is a artist, inventor and all around practical person in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. He has a background in sculpture, architecture and industrial design as well as an MS from the Media Lab spent working on the kitchen of the future. He is on a search for truth.
