I spent two days at a Game Jam organized by the SDG+ Lab Kassel, focused on board games as media of sustainability-related science communication.

The process itself was fascinating: dozens of rough ideas developed in rapid iterations, collectively discussed, evaluated for their epistemic and communicative potential, and transformed into playable prototypes within small groups — all within two days.

In our group, we designed a cooperative deckbuilding game centered on the “heroic” story of a tech billionaire. But instead of playing the hero, players take the roles of ordinary people navigating everyday life within that narrative — relying on mutual support, local cooperation, and community-building.

What interests me most is that games do not simply “transfer” knowledge. They create performative and co-creative situations in which understanding emerges through interaction, negotiation, and shared experimentation.

#BoardGames #ScienceCommunication #Futuring #GameStudies

I am very much looking forward to delivering my keynote today on #pioneer #communities and ‘quiet’ and ‘loud’ #futuring at the IAMCR conference ‘Creative Communication and Empowerment’ at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

And to everyone listening: the research I have presented is being carried out at the @comai research unit and at @zemki, @unibremen.

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Futures and histories collide! Is it science fiction? time travel? Nope, it’s Food Studies!

Your reading pleasure this weekend = the future of food + a HISTORY of the future of food. (That is, a book review plus a companion media piece, as curated by us…)

Our first featured future is Sarah J. Martin’s review of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, in which chef Dan Barber imagines a meal in which taste and sustainability come together on a single plate. (CFS Vol. 1 No. 2 [2014]): https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.47

Focusing on future backwards is Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, by Warren Belasco. While Barber projects forwards, Belasco looks at how past forecasters proposed futures over the last two hundred years. How often do we repeat ourselves?

#FoodStudies
#FoodSecurity
#FoodHistory
#FoodFutures
#Futuring
#Meals
#WarrenBelasco
#DanBarber

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for #RegenerativeInnovation* #PhD #Funding at #DundeeUni:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL167/leverhulme-doctoral-programme-for-regenerative-innovation-regnr8-i

Special plug for projects w research group colleagues 😊

1) Regenerating Healthcare Pathways for Equitable Health and Wellbeing
#Futuring #Foresight #Participatory

2) Co-Designing Regenerative Therapeutic Spaces
#Participatory #MixedMethods

#HealthCare #DesignResearch #Regnr8i #Sustainability #Restorative
* More info here:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/funding/leverhulme-doctoral-scholars-programme

Check this hopeful TED-talk in which Ruha Benjamin imagines Ustopias. 'Ustopias are built on an understanding that all of our struggles, from climate justice to racial justice, are interconnected, that we are interconnected.'
https://www.ted.com/talks/ruha_benjamin_is_technology_our_savior_or_our_slayer

This is more than imagining, it is possibility thinking.
#Commons #Commoning #SolarPunk #Futuring #Technology #PeopleOverProfit #RuhaBenjamin #FocusOpHetGoede