Husain Rizvi

Photos courtesy of the artist

Project Description

Husain Rizvi's "Games for Justice" project is a collaboration with The City School that aims to create an independent game development studio structure that centers economic democracy and transformative justice (rather than capitalism and oppressive mainstream game industry standards) by supporting young game designers of color in the Boston area to learn, collaborate, and create game projects that reflect and provoke action on different social justice issues.

Artist Bio

Husain Rizvi's (they/them) primary interests center around game design and development, creative writing, racial/queer/gender justice, community organizing, and exploring alternative economic models for game production. They believe that creating spaces for youth of color to be creative while being compensated allows for community care, healing, self-expression, self-reflection, personal development, and will fundamentally oppose the oppressive structures currently in place for art and game production. Husain is a third-year undergraduate at MIT studying Urban Studies and Planning and Comparative Media Studies, and is a 2017 graduate of The City School’s Summer Leadership Program.