Companion Modelling for natural resource management with Claude Garcia
We had a unique opportunity to talk with Claude Garcia, who is a member of the ComMod Network and uses Companion Modelling as part of his activities.
Online gaming as an educational tool for sustainability
Sustainability is defined as “the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level”, according to the Oxford Dictionary
The future starts now: experiencing scenarios for energy transition through social simulation
The energy transition will inevitably have to be introduced soon, and both the process and the time framework of the change are the key to success.
Exploring Minecraft’s Potential for Inclusive Innovation – The Exeter 2025 Minecraft Challenge
Exeter City features a series of challenges the city faces and offers the Minecraft map for people to test out solutions on.
Play New Shores on International Day of Democracy. Aim for SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Democracy is a universally recognized ideal and one of the key principles of the United Nations (defined as goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).
Creating meaningful experiences with We Are Müesli
We Are Müesli actively tries to produce inclusive and meaningful experiences focused on such cultural and empathic themes.
Beyond Language: Translating Games for Global Audiences
While the opportunity to share the game with diverse groups is exciting, it also presents challenges for translating it for such groups.
Water, Trust, and the Shadow of Flint
Ongoing, Flint Water Crisis has highlighted the importance of the relationship between communities and drinking water infrastructure managers.
Play Go-Goals! – the SDG board game for children
The UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe has developed the Go Goals! – a board game, targeted mainly at children. Play Go Goals!
Cantor’s World: Can you plan to tackle the climate challenge?
In Cantor’s World, you play the role of a chief decision-maker of a country. The other players would be chief decision-makers of different countries. You set what goals you want to achieve at the outset, in terms of which Sustainable Development Goals you wish to achieve.
Taking sustainability to schools with Darcy Hitchcock
Darcy Hitchcock from the Sustainability Alliance in Arizona has developed not one but two games which can be applied in the children’s education context: Sustainability in Schools for teachers and administrators, and Save the Climate for pupils.
Play fair on the World Environment Day
You may raise environmental awareness among youth and inspire them to think about the Earth in a more long-term perspective by engaging them in serious games. The closest opportunity to get familiar with one of them – New Shores – a Game for Democracy coincides with the celebrations of the World Environmental Day!
