Emergent Futures: Exploring Energy Transition Choices Through Serious Games

Practitioners working with communities to build resilience face increasing challenges related to the rapid pace of the energy transition and worsening climate impacts. Meaningful participatory processes can enhance collective understanding of long-term trade-offs and uncertainties. Research indicates that serious games are increasingly employed to support this integrated planning challenge. This study contributes to the knowledge on this topic through an integrated literature review, case study analysis, and focus groups comprising of representative subject matter experts and stakeholders. A thematic analysis of participant feedback demonstrates the value of early stakeholder engagement in the design process and how co-development of serious games can foster emergent dialogue. The findings offer valuable insights into serious games as tools for social innovation and how they have been integrated into participatory planning through iterative co-development. The conclusions are illustrated within a serious game conceptual design structured to encourage systems thinking through foresight-driven design.

Author dc:creator

• Simonsen, Julie, Ann

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Newell, Robert

• School of environment and sustainability

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier URI

https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-20435

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:null:10613/28871