08/27/2026
✨ Throwback to Extreme 2026! ✨
As we look back on the multi-year journey of Extreme Costa Rica, we’re spotlighting the incredible student projects from our 2026 cohort! 🌿🇨🇷
These solutions are a powerful demonstration of what happens when heart-centered design meets deeper community partnerships. After co-designing right alongside communities who live these challenges every day, our student teams created hyper-local innovations that will continue to spark lasting, systemic impact.
Ready to see how local ingenuity ripples across the globe? Dive into our 6-part project showcase below! 👇🎬
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Post 6 of 6: Team Sé Siwä - Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge Through Games 🏹
Expanding design beyond transactional utility creates space to honor spiritual wellbeing, living ecosystems, and ancestral heritage. True community resilience preserves the soul of a culture while equipping future generations to thrive on their own terms.
Traditional Indigenous games in Costa Rica embody centuries of ecological wisdom, physical mastery, and community identity, yet face erosion under modern social pressures. To safeguard this living history, Extreme student Team Sé Siwä (Ian, Jaime and Thu) co-designed a participatory framework built alongside Bribri and Cabecar communities to celebrate, revitalize, and sustain the traditional Indigenous Games of Costa Rica. By transforming cultural preservation into active community engagement, this initiative helps to restore deep ancestral pride, protects indigenous knowledge, and unites youth with elders through revitalized traditions.
🎥 Watch the full video to experience the power of community-led cultural preservation!
In partnership with Sé Siwä Ecolodge and Spiritual Center
