The Cultural Game Jam Kit: Expansion Pack extends the Core Framework, making cultural game jamming more open, flexible, and youth-driven. It is designed for organisations that want to move beyond structured facilitation and create spaces where young people actively shape their own pathways through the process. The Expansion Pack retains the same core phases, tools, and cultural dimensions, while enabling participants to navigate them in more self-directed ways.
In this format, participants select methods, remix approaches, and define their own workflows. This fosters agency, cultural imagination, and personal engagement with cultural heritage, enabling young people to interpret and transform cultural material in ways that are meaningful to them. The jam becomes a space for exploration, experimentation, and co-creation, with outcomes emerging through participant-driven processes.
Situated within the full EPIC-WE kit family and aligned with the Quadruple Helix Cultural Innovation Ecosystem, the Expansion Pack offers the most flexible and agency-rich format. While the Core Framework provides structure and consistency, the Expansion Pack invites plurality and experimentation. Together, they form a complementary pair that enables organisers to balance guidance and openness according to context, participants, and goals. As such, this kit expands the Core Framework with Role Cards and EU Value Cards.
