Event details

Are you curious about the role of games in environmental education, research and public engagement?  Do you have experience in game research or design? Or are you interested in engaging others with environmental issues through the medium of games?  Play for the Planet exists to connect, learn, create and act on environmental crises through all kinds of games including tabletop, digital and role-playing  games.  Everyone with an interest in game design and research in the context of the climate and ecological crises is welcome to share experiences, connect with each other and play.

Permission to play

• This one day event is an opportunity to:
• Link research and practice on environmental games
• Share your research or design experience in games with an environmental twist
• Find out how to get started using games for education and public engagement
• Connect with others, play (with) your ideas and imagine new directions in environmental education and communication.

Join us!

You can influence our adventure in 4 ways:

• Submit an abstract to give a research blast – one slide, 3 minutes – intro to your work to stimulate post-blast conversations over coffee (deadline 12.00 noon 17th January 2025
• Propose a question for a world café discussion – this could be a puzzle in game design, an ethical question…anything you want to discuss with environmental games people
• Speed introduce a game you have been designing, researching or want to share
• Participate in the fun of the day  

Draft Schedule

9.00      ARRIVAL/DRINKS – playful challenge in drinks

9.30      PLAYFUL START (theatre game with an environmental twist)

9.45      GAME BLAST (1 slide/3 minute research/design presentations/provocations on games for the planet)

10.45    WORLD CAFÉ QUESTION SELECTION

11.15    BREAK

11.30    WORLD CAFÉ

12.15    LUNCH - another playful challenge

1.00      LEGO CHALLENGE: THE REMATCH

1.30      PLAYTIME! Speed meet a game

2.30      GAME CHALLENGE

4.30      GAME OVER (next steps, networking, support)

5.00      END

Deadline for submission of abstract to speak: 17th January - click on book tickets link to submit an abstract to speak

Deadline for registration: 14th March