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Change makers don’t understand games; game makers don’t understand change

Change makers and game developers need to actually step into each other’s worlds.

Jun 3

Change makers don’t understand games; game makers don’t understand change

Jun 3

Everyone is a mystic poet: the secret trippiness at the heart of systems change

Far from being an esoteric subject, mystery is at the deepest level of systems change — and mystic poetry suffuses every day action.

May 10

Everyone is a mystic poet: the secret trippiness at the heart of systems change

May 10

Peer-reviewed goosebumps: academic writing as a transmission of energy

What happens if you write your papers as a way to transmit energy to people?

Feb 18

Peer-reviewed goosebumps: academic writing as a transmission of energy

Feb 18

All Will Rise — an inappropriately joyous game about fighting for the planet

We’re clashing Phoenix Wright, Disco Elysium and narrative deck building with the ecological crisis — to help fund real court cases.

Feb 9

All Will Rise — an inappropriately joyous game about fighting for the planet

Feb 9

Infrastructures of mystery — scaffolding the wonder of existence

What if society would recognize and support the value of connecting to life’s mystery?

Jan 17

Infrastructures of mystery — scaffolding the wonder of existence

Jan 17

Take a course, build a video game, change the world

Utrecht University and the HKU University of the Arts help students build video games for better futures

Nov 6, 2023

Take a course, build a video game, change the world

Nov 6, 2023

Transformative imagination

Linking resonant action, deeply creative practice, and imagination infrastructures

Oct 23, 2023

Transformative imagination

Oct 23, 2023

Unity and the destruction of imagination infrastructure

Can we afford to have our collective imaginations be held hostage by profoundly short-sighted business decisions?

Sep 17, 2023

Unity and the destruction of imagination infrastructure

Sep 17, 2023

Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness

How can loneliness be the starting point of social change? And how can games help?

Aug 11, 2023

Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness

Aug 11, 2023

Wonder + X: cosmic connection, difficult emotions, and real social change

How can cosmic wonder and difficult but mobilizing emotions be combined to support social change?

Jul 26, 2023

Wonder + X: cosmic connection, difficult emotions, and real social change

Jul 26, 2023

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An NWO Vidi research project • Exploring how games can help imagine & realize sustainable futures • Games For Better Futures & Futures For Better Games 🎮

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