In the tech lab at the Brownsville Community Justice Center, a small room overheated by computers and the energy of late-teens and 20-somethings, a group of young people are working daily on the final production phase of an immersive, virtual reality video game.
It’s a massive undertaking: they are replicating Brownsville, digitally, in an attempt to both soothe neighborhood tensions and illuminate the dignity they see in the people who live there.
Their mission comes from feeling weary of conflict between housing developments, tensions with police and the systems in place that keep people poor and relegated to public housing.
