FMUAB18 will host the Refugee Scape Room
25/10/2018
Year 2084. The Earth has become an uninhabitable place because of climate change, extreme temperatures, desertification and lack of water. Several families will have to request asylum to planet Mars but unfortunately spots are limited and only half of the affected people will get to access. Only those who do it more efficiently will be the privileged to enter Mars.
On November 8th, during FMUAB18, UAB community’s members will have the opportunity of living the experience in this fictional scenario with Refugee Scape Room in Facultat de Traducció i Interpretació. Participants will be able to explore some of the realities and challenges that immigrants, asylum-seekers or refugees live during their migratory process.
Participants will split in five groups of six members each. Every team will be assigned a family profile (components, health condition, educational level, country of origin...) and every member of the group will have a role within the family.
This game pretends to emulate, to the extent possible, the stress, confusion and tension that many people face day by day during their migratory process. It is a process of educational transformation in which experiences are lived as a game that seeks to maximise the participants’ commitment and inspire them in continue learning.
Those who are interested in taking part will have to fill in this form. Deadline to sign up ends on November 6th 2018 and the organisation will contact registered people with necessary instructions to participate.
This activity, one of the many that will take place in the Festa Major under the slogan #UABrefuge: Autònoma shelters, has been created by Núria Serre from Programa de Salut Internacional de l’Institut Català de la Salut (PROSICS), by Dr. Lloy Wylie from the Public Health masters at the Western University London (Ontario, Canada) and by Ada Vilalta and Anais Cuerva, two Biomedicine students on external internship.