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Please note: the information in the course manual is binding.
This course focuses on games as a way to engage with sustainable futures. The aim of this course is for students, in interdisciplinary teams, to develop a number of sustainability games that use the unique features of games to explore future scenarios. Through the development process of this game, the students realize the following learning goals:
- Acquire in-depth knowledge of game design as a tool for engaging with the future
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Use game design to learn about the representation of complex systems and future scenarios
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A unique possibility to work with teams in a highly transdisciplinary, creative design process
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Translate scientific knowledge of sustainability themes into appealing applied games for a wider audience with diverse societal clients
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In this course, UU bachelor's students specializing in sustainability topics collaborate with Games & Interaction students from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht to build and publish a fully functional prototype game! This means that at the end of the course, around 15 game prototypes about sustainable futures will have been developed (one per group).
Games are an exciting tool for exploring interdisciplinary and complex sustainability problems, and an important, upcoming tool for imagining and experimenting with more sustainable futures. They can build directly on science to offer rigorous representations of human and natural systems and different societal roles and perspectives, while offering highly experiential, scalable modes of engagement. They allow people to step into future worlds and experiment with the rules and roles that make up those futures.
UU students start with lectures to get up to speed with game mechanics and academic game design theory - and then a series of tutorials and lectures about games in a context of scenario planning, anticipatory governance, and sustainable futures.
The joint course is kick-started with a game-jam: a week-long process bringing together teams to build game prototypes. Interdisciplinary teams of ~5 students design serious games focusing on exploring sustainable futures, with UU students taking on the role of sustainability experts. Impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH18LBtXFp8. After the game jam, students will continue to work with their HKU teams to finalize their games about sustainable futures.
How to apply:
The minimum number students for this course is 15, the maximum number is 38. Registration will close once 38 students has been reached, on a first come first serve basis.
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