IGENGO Lab. is a Deaf lead group that offers the society an experience-based entertainment.

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Our mission is to “create a world where being different can be enjoyed”. 

We   developed   an   “Inter-lingual  Escape  Game”   that   incorporated   sign languages, written texts, and gestures in the mystery solving game. 

The purpose of the game is for both Deaf and hearing participants to cooperate and to solve for the many mysteries that include the features of sign language and spoken language. 

By experiencing the game, people from different language and culture can interact and the participants can think more deeply about the true nature of communication.

This  can  lead  to  the  development  of  people  with  deeper  understanding  of diversity and people with the ability to apply their experience for more accessible communication in the society.

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By putting the participants in an unknown world of sign language, the participants can experience many emotions, such as not being able to communicate well, the feeling of joy when they were able to communicate, and the feeling of uncertainty in a world that they are not familiar with.

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Inter-lingual  Escape Game  is a unique game that can change something “unknown” to something “familiar”. We are currently developing an inter-lingual escape game that can be enjoyed by people from all over the world.

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We believe that our work can help to accelerate the global understanding for adiverse society.

We are making the project of new escape game  with  International  Sign, playing with the world deaf and hearing people.

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International Sign is not a sign language, but a kind of pidgin language based on the   signs   of   different   countries   (a   contact   language   created   naturally   with interchangeable alternative words to communicate between different languages

between locals who speak the local language and traders who do not speak the local language but a foreign language. It is formed as a means of intergroup communication when two or more groups without a common language encounter each other), but in the Deaf world, events and meetings that bring together the whole world are often conducted via international sign language.

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It is said that visual languages are easier to learn than spoken languages, which are more difficult to learn, and that a person who has mastered a sign language can communicate with almost anyone, except for abstract concepts, within a month.  

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By   creating   an   interactive   theatre   using   an International Sign that brings different languages closer together, we hope

to spread the appeal of sign languages to the rest of the world, not only in Japan but also in other countries.

Through these experiential theatre performances, we aim to bring to the world the possibilities of sign language and the ideas, art and new approaches that arise from sign language.

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