KNOWMAD (the game) is mapped from a real world of tribal groups that are being currently eradicated by political and civil change. The cultural icons from various tribes as found in the rugs they weave are recharted here in a virtual world of gaming. Women knot bits of wool and create evidence of human survival. In KNOWMAD these motifs are used by the programmer and designer as they keystroke pixels of color into a wire-framed world