By Lauren McManamon & Kyle Alexander Thompson — In late 2021, the Anticiplay team set out on a journey to make a climate courthouse game inspired by real life climate court cases against powerful polluters. This blog is the first in a series of dev blogs — describing the process and progress of making the climate courthouse game. …

By Dr. Joost Vervoort, Anticiplay Project Lead — Dr. Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Foresight and Anticipatory Governance at Utrecht University. His work focuses on where imagined futures, games, and politics, policy and action connect. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl The world needs more than our positive and constructive imaginations. Many of our current systems are fundamentally broken and…

By Carien Moossdorff — Carien is a cultural sociologist and PhD candidate at Anticiplay. She observes very serious societal processes going on in game, play, and leisure — as well as very light-hearted, playful, and joyful mechanics in earnest institutions. …

By Carien Moossdorff — Carien is a cultural sociologist and PhD candidate at Anticiplay. She observes very serious societal processes going on in game, play, and leisure — as well as very light-hearted, playful, and joyful mechanics in earnest institutions. …

By Joost Vervoort and the Anticiplay project team — Joost Vervoort is an Associate Professor of Foresight and Anticipatory Governance at Utrecht University. His work connects imagined futures, games, and politics, policy and action. He leads the Anticiplay project, evaluation work on the H2020 CreaTures project, and the CCAFS Scenarios Project. A while back, we in the Anticiplay project…

A call organized by the Dutch Research Council project Anticiplay and partners — Organizers: Dr. Joost Vervoort, Carien Moossdorff, Kyle Thompson, Mae van Veldhoven (Anticiplay team, Utrecht University); Milica Zec (independent game developer, Tree). There is more and more interest among game developers, researchers, policy makers, activists and more for developing games that engage with a transforming world. Issues like climate change and…

By Joost Vervoort, Anticiplay project lead — Joost Vervoort (@vervoort_joost) is an Associate Professor of Foresight and Anticipatory Governance at Utrecht University. His work focuses on where imagined futures, games, and politics, policy and action connect. Email: j.m.vervoort@uu.nl. Last Saturday (11 September 2021) I attended a strategy meeting organized by Fossielvrij NL, an organization led by three…

By Carien Moossdorff — Carien is a cultural sociologist and PhD candidate at Anticiplay. She observes very serious societal processes going on in game, play, and leisure — as well as very light-hearted, playful, and joyful mechanics in earnest institutions. …

By Iris Wijnands — Iris Wijnands is a Global Sustainability Science student who participated in the Utrecht University 2021 Sustainability Game course. This course is centered around gaming and game development in the context of a new design paradigm, for which Iris wrote the following opinion piece. I first learned about the game Viscera…