AUSTRIA

Vision for our Station

Our Names:

1) Diego Diez De Bonilla

2) Jose Martinez

3) Jakob Getzel

4) Nicholas Bartels

Part 0: Learn phrases and insults to yell at our refugees in German

Part 1: How the station will look and what will happen there

1. Here are some photos that give a feel for the images we’re modelling our station on:

• Include captions that explain what the photo actually shows, and a link to the source

2. Are you planning to make your station a specific place within your country? (for example, a city where lots of refugees live) or just the country as a whole?

Explain the reasoning behind this decision

3. Here’s a “blueprint” for our station

[either use “insert drawing” or draw this on paper, take a photo, and insert it here]

4. Here are the objects and structures we plan to have in our station

5. Here are all the stations refugees can get to our station DIRECTLY from:

6. Here are all the stations refugees can go to DIRECTLY from our station:

7. Describe the experience of approaching your station. Will anything happen to a “refugee” as they approach? Who will greet them? How will they be greeted? Will different refugees be greeted in different ways? If so, will that be random or based on a specific characteristic (such as religion or wealth)?

8. What options will a refugee have at your station? What dangers are there? What “characters” will there be in your station? Who will want to help them? Who will want to harm or deceive them? Will there be people who want them to stay? Will there be people who want to move them along to somewhere else?

9. What comes next after your station? Will anyone be allowed/forced to stay? If so, how will that process work? Will refugees leave your station on their own, or will they be escorted? Where will they go next?

10. How long do you anticipate most refugees will spend in your station, from beginning to end?

11. Here are the roles that each of us will “play” during the simulation tomorrow:

• Make sure you say who’s doing what

Part 2: Research questions from the Lead Designers:

1. Approximately how many refugees have been let in since the start of the refugee crisis?

2. From which border are they coming in, and where are they leaving from?

3. How does the country treat their refugees on the border? What about within the country itself? (This includes anything they may take from refugees or give to refugees.)

4. How difficult is it for each refugee to get into the country?

5. When refugees come to the country, are they passing through or do they intend to stay?

6. How many refugees can the country afford/hold? What is the economic state?

Priorities for next week:

• Make a station which is a lot more aesthetically pleasing (and more functional)
• Make a better way of accepting people into austria
• Have a better system for deciding who stays

Priorities for Tomorrow’s Playtest:

• Work on the Grand Border Officer’s Supreme Austrian Asylum Application Booth
• Write some phrases down, with common questions and answers to them (In German).
• Work on ideas for our station, and the sketch for the general of what it’s gonna be.
• Research

Based on what I’ve just read, here are more priorities (from Dr. P):

1. Finish this Graphic Organizer. It will help you structure the experience at your station.
2. Take action based on my comments on this graphic organizer as well as on your station research graphic organizer

Austria

• Austria Caps migrants and agrees to cooperate more with Greece
• Germany slams Austria’s refugee policy