Hide&SEEK: sharing cultural knowledge

In this paper, we describe the project; Hide&SEEK, which creates opportunities for cultural knowledge transfer through a street game experience. The game narrative is based on the concept of sharing place-based knowledge where participants assume the role of either Guest or Host of the story. The Host creates a personalized adventure route through a known space and publishes it to a specific person. The Guest then has the opportunity to explore an unknown place through an unraveling of a series of clues, which lead them through a particular spatial experience. The treasure at the end of the game is not a material reward but rather the construction of a shared social experience; the exploration and revealing of a place known to the Host and initially unknown to the Guest developing as a valuable artifact in the memory of both game participants.