Playtesting: Game-Changers – The Game
Playtesting Session: Game-Changers – The Game
Time: Tuesday October 22nd, 13.15-16.00
Location: Drift 21 (room 1.09), Utrecht
On October 17th, 2019, the Utrecht Center for Game Research is planning a playtesting and co-design session for the scenario-planning ecogame Game-Changers, developed by Slovenian designer and alumnus of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development (Utrecht University) Rok Kranjc and intended to be played e.g. in stakeholder meetings as well as during summer schools and conferences.
If you’d like to participate, we’d like to ask you to informally register via Doodle as we only have 32 available slots in total.
- Introduction (10min)
- Reading rules, browsing ‘seeds‘ (10min)
- Playtesting (70min)
- Coffee Break (10min)
- First round of reflection (15min)
- Suggesting improvements, iterations (15min)
- Focused playtesting of suggested changes, with predefined game set-ups (30min)
- Final round of reflection (20min)
- Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
Bennett, E. M., Solan, M., Biggs, R., McPhearson, T., Norström, A. V, Olsson, P., … Xu, J. (2016). Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(8), 441–448. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1309 - Experimenting with alternative economies
Longhurst, N., Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J., Weaver, P., Dumitru, A., Hielscher, S., … Elle, M. (2016). Experimenting with alternative economies: four emergent counter-narratives of urban economic development. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.04.006 - Trojan horses in transitions
Pel, B. (2016). Trojan horses in transitions: A dialectical perspective on innovation ‘capture.’ Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 18(5), 673–691. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2015.1090903
- One transition, many transitions?
Feola, G., & Jaworska, S. (2018). One transition, many transitions? A corpus-based study of societal sustainability transition discourses in four civil society’s proposals. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0631-9