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Improving the publics’ understanding of the energy system is a challenging task. Making citizens aware of how the complex energy system functions and how consumers of energy services can respond to a changing energy environment seems more difficult. In the context of the German energy transition, more active energy consumers are needed, not only in...
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... platform (see Fig. 1 3 ) to engage visitors in experiencing aspects of how they might interact in new ways in the smart grid electri- city system. 4 shows the new appearance of the Expedition N. 5 The two-story vehicle offers more than 100 m 2 of space for a multimedia exhibition, experiments (as one example, see Fig. 3 6 ), film viewing (see Fig. 4 7 ), and other possible forms of events, to facilitate engagement of visi- tors in multiple ways. For the energy transition theme, there are 20 exhibits (e.g., see Fig. 5 8 ) and multimedia terminals. There are also sections (see Fig. 6) providing information and explanation on energy basics (e.g., basic energy concepts, energy resources), ...
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... Serious Games 10 and Games With A Purpose 11 represent interesting approaches that allow to build skills and improve understanding of decision-making in complex settings. These games, in fact, are built so to promote players' learning and behavioral changes, and have been applied to a wide variety problems, e.g., air pollution 12 , noise pollution 13 , energy 14 and urban networks 15,16 . The importance of serious games has grown in recent years, as witnessed by the many efforts devoted to finding a general framework to validate their effectiveness [17][18][19] . ...
The adverse effects of unsustainable behaviors on human society are leading to an increasingly urgent and critical need to change policies and practices worldwide. This requires that citizens become informed and engaged in participatory governance and measures leading to sustainable futures. Citizens’ understanding of the inherent complexity of sustainable systems is a necessary (though generally not sufficient) ingredient for them to understand controversial public policies and maintain the core principles of democratic societies. In this work, we present a novel, open-ended experiment where individuals had the opportunity to solve model urban sustainability problems in a purposeful game. Participants were challenged to interact with familiar LEGO blocks representing elements in a complex generative urban economic indicators model. Players seeks to find a specific urban configuration satisfying particular sustainability requirements. We show that, despite the intrinsic complexity and non-linearity of the problems, participants’ ability to make counter-intuitive actions helps them find suitable solutions. Moreover, we show that through successive iterations of the experiment, participants can overcome the difficulties linked to non-linearity and increase the probability of finding the correct solution to the problem. We contend that this kind of what-if platforms could have a crucial role in future approaches to sustainable developments goals.
... The government can use its credibility to effectively promote sustainable lifestyles and regulate the polluting way of production. Innovative, locally and culturally appropriate, and effective learning approaches, including informal, narrative-driven, and game-like methods [56][57][58][59][60][61][62], can be introduced. ...
The urgent and critical challenges of transforming patterns of behavior from current unsustainable ones are encapsulated in the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to these goals and targets are systems of sustainable consumption and production. This crucial goal depends on consumers and producers making choices that depend on knowledge available to them and on other factors influencing their preferences in accordance with norms and culture. This paper investigates how “green knowledge” (i.e., knowledge of ecologically and socially sound products and practices) influences sustainability in the intersections of knowledge, preferences, behavior, and economic and environmental performance. By employing a general equilibrium economic model, we show that consumers, producers, and industry regulators with different degrees of knowledge and concern about the health and environmental benefits of products and production would lead to different economic and environmental consequences. As “green knowledge” influences consumption patterns and government policy-making, our model shows that, in principle, there will be a shift in the content of the economy to that which supports the achievement of long-term sustainability.
... Stimulating dialog was also the intention behind the energy exhibits and German energy transition (Energiewende) game in a mobile exhibition mounted in expanding trailer truck in Germany (Fig. 3). The truck traveled around in Germany with the set of exhibits and a game designed by the author and Professor Ortwin Renn (Li et al. 2015). In the period between 2013 and 2018 the Baden-Württemberg Foundation reported that nearly 700,000 people visited the truck. ...
The challenge facing humanity is to live sustainably within both the ecological and physical limits of our planet and the societal boundaries needed for social cohesion and well-being. This is fundamentally a societal issue, rather than primarily an environmental problem amenable to technological optimization. Implementing the global aspirations embodied in the sustainable development goals of the United Nations will require societal transformation largely through collective behavior change at multiple geographic scales and governance levels across the world. Narrative expressions of visions of sustainable futures and narrative expressions of identity provide important, but underutilized insights for understanding affordances and obstacles to collective behavior change. Analyzing affective narrative expressions circulating in various communities seeking to implement aspects of sustainability opens up the opportunity to test whether affectively prioritized agent-based models can lead to novel emergent dynamics of social movements seeking sustainable futures. Certain types of playful games also offer the means to observe collective behaviors, as well as providing boundary objects and learning environments to facilitate dialogs among diverse stakeholders. Games can be designed to stimulate learning throughout the life span, which builds capacity for continuing innovation for the well-being of societies in moving toward sustainable futures.
... Play is a critical component of learning and inspiration at all ages, not only for its intrinsic motivation of fun, but also for allowing experimentation with less risk and fear of failure. Games provide opportunities to introduce crucial information and concepts for sustainability in non-didactic, developmentally and culturally appropriate ways (Vervoort, 2019), and they can also serve as valuable boundary objects to facilitate dialogue among actors with diverse levels of power, knowledge, and resources in conflict situations (Li et al., 2015). Narrative-driven role-playing games can also be designed to engage players and develop awareness of and empathy with others living in very different contexts and cultures (Mendler de Suarez et al., 2012). ...
... Kreyon City augmented reality game prototype, Rome 2017. Source: IlanChabay (2015). ...
The Digital Revolution, including technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, additive manufacturing or 3D-printing, (general purpose) artificial intelligence, or the Internet of Things, has entered the public discourse in many countries. Looking back, it is almost impossible to believe that digitalization is barely featured in the 2030 Agenda or the Paris Agreement. It is increasingly clear that digital changes, we refer to them as the Digital Revolution, are becoming a key driving force in societal transformation. The transformation towards sustainability for all must be harmonized with the threats, opportunities and dynamics of the Digital Revolution, the goals of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement. At the same time, the digital transformation will radically alter all dimensions of global societies and economies and will therefore change the interpretation of the sustainability paradigm itself. Digitalization is not only an ‘instrument’ to resolve sustainability challenges, it is also fundamental as a driver of disruptive change.
... Play is a critical component of learning and inspiration at all ages, not only for its intrinsic motivation of fun, but also for allowing experimentation with less risk and fear of failure. Games provide opportunities to introduce crucial information and concepts for sustainability in non-didactic, developmentally and culturally appropriate ways (Vervoort, 2019), and they can also serve as valuable boundary objects to facilitate dialogue among actors with diverse levels of power, knowledge, and resources in conflict situations (Li et al., 2015). Narrative-driven role-playing games can also be designed to engage players and develop awareness of and empathy with others living in very different contexts and cultures (Mendler de Suarez et al., 2012). ...
... Kreyon City augmented reality game prototype, Rome 2017. Source: IlanChabay (2015). ...
This report is based on the voluntary and collaborative effort of 45 authors and contributors from about 20 institutions, and some 100 independent experts from academia, business, government, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations from all the regions of the world, who met four times at IIASA to develop science-based strategies and pathways toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This report assesses all the positive potential benefits digitalization brings to sustainable development for all. It also highlights the potential negative impacts and challenges going forward, particularly for those impacted by the ‘digital divide’ that excludes primarily people left behind during the Industrial Revolution like the billion that go hungry every night and the billion who do not have access to electricity. The report outlines the necessary preconditions for a successful digital transformation, including prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability, and good governance. Importantly it outlines some of the dramatic social implications associated with an increasingly digital future. It also covers a topic that so far has not been sufficiently dealt with in the cross-over discussions between sustainability and the Digital Revolution, that is, the considerations about related governance aspects.
... Play is a critical component of learning and inspiration at all ages, not only for its intrinsic motivation of fun, but also for allowing experimentation with less risk and fear of failure. Games provide opportunities to introduce crucial information and concepts for sustainability in non-didactic, developmentally and culturally appropriate ways (Vervoort, 2019), and they can also serve as valuable boundary objects to facilitate dialogue among actors with diverse levels of power, knowledge, and resources in conflict situations (Li et al., 2015). Narrative-driven role-playing games can also be designed to engage players and develop awareness of and empathy with others living in very different contexts and cultures (Mendler de Suarez et al., 2012). ...
... Kreyon City augmented reality game prototype, Rome 2017. Source: IlanChabay (2015). ...
This report assesses all the positive potential benefits digitalization brings to sustainable development for all.
It also highlights the potential negative impacts and challenges going forward, particularly for those impacted by the ‘digital divide’ that excludes primarily people left behind during the Industrial Revolution like the billion that go hungry every night and the billion who do not have access to electricity. The report outlines the necessary preconditions for a successful digital transformation, including prosperity, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and good governance. Importantly it outlines some of the dramatic social implications associated with an increasingly digital future. It also covers a topic that so far has not been sufficiently dealt with in the cross-over discussions between sustainability and the Digital Revolution, that is, the considerations about related governance aspects.
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TWI2050 - The World in 2050 (2019). The Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and
Challenges. Report prepared by The World in 2050 initiative. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
(IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. www.twi2050.org
Available at: pure.iiasa.ac.at/15913/
ISBN 10: 3-7045-0155-7
ISBN 13: 978-3-7045-0155-4
DOI: 10.22022/TNT/05-2019.15913
... One example is a mobile exhibition in Baden-Württemberg, Germany designed by the author and Professor Ortwin Renn, which includes an energy transition (Energiewende) game. The energy transition game (Li et al. 2015) combines electronic displays, which present the player with household tasks to perform that require energy in the 5 min game (representing a virtual week). The unique feature with consequences that stimulate questions from the players is that the combined power demand of all the player households is supplied by a mix of renewable and coal-fired power plants represented by a hand-cranked generator operated by one of the players. ...
Rural and peri-urban communities in Japan, as well as in many other regions of the world, face risks of discrete event natural phenomena, including earthquakes, floods, and landslides. They also face persistent disruptive stress due to risks that remain active over long durations, such as the loss of community capacities due to an aging population. This article describes my observations of and subsequent reflections on adaptive risk governance and community resilience building processes in two areas of western and southern Japan—Chizu in Tottori Prefecture and towns near Kumamoto City in Kumamoto Prefecture. Four aspects of adaptive risk governance from this limited set of observations stood out: (1) the importance of establishing a durable, patient process, (2) initiated and facilitated by a trusted figure, in (3) a space or venue accessible and open to the community, and (4) augmented by boundary objects that facilitate role playing, iteration, and ownership by the community of solutions generated in these dialogues.
Natural security refers to all aspects of security related to a reliable, sufficient, affordable and sustainable supply of natural resources, and energy to meet the needs of society by protecting the environment, human health, and living things. Effects derived from climate change are one of the biggest challenges encountered in terms of natural security. Simulation games play a vital role in building a sustainable world. This study investigates the games for topics like natural security, energy security, carbon capture and storage, renewable energy and waste. A review of the literature showed forty-three studies which focused on the objective of the study. Most of the games were used in education and used to transfer knowledge in the field of waste. The paper points out the importance of natural security and the need to develop more games in natural security and its related fields to build a regenerative economy.
