Conference: Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation

Members of the Play!UC consortium are contributing to the organisation of the upcoming conference on “Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation” being held at Hasselt University in Belgium from May 21st-22nd. The conference aims to address how social media and technology can empower citizens to participate (Track 1), sustain civic self-organisation (Track 2) and how such practices can be evaluated and documented (Track 3). More information is available on the conference website:

http://www.uhasselt.be/conference-fostering-civic-self-organisation

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Jeremiah Diephuis. This entry was posted in conference and tagged conference, hasselt. Bookmark the permalink.

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Project mission

The research project “Playing with Urban Complexity - Using co-located serious games to reduce the urban carbon footprint among young adults” aims to foster the understanding of complex urban problems by combining participatory processes with serious games in a co-located setting. In particular, the project seeks to explore how game mechanics can be used to engage the actor group of young adults to make informed decisions that have an impact on their respective urban carbon footprints. Investigating both existing games and novel game-based approaches, the project partners endeavour to create a tested game mechanics toolbox that can serve as a resource for participatory, game-based urban development scenarios.

Conference: Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation

Project mission