While playing to change the world: theater and gaming techniques in sustainability teaching
A project for teachers who want to use gaming and applied drama techniques in sustainability teaching to inspire students and let them explore complex sustainability issues in an interactive manner.
Details
- Period: 2023-08-31 – 2024-06-30
- Funder: Internal funding,PUMA
Do you want to use gaming and applied drama techniques in sustainability teaching?
To have fun while teaching, to inspire students and let them explore complex sustainability issues in an interactive manner, to improve soft skills together, and finally to become a “magician” who creates own worlds in the classroom?
Welcome to the project “While playing to change the world: theater and gaming techniques in sustainability teaching”!
Aim
To provide teachers involved in sustainability related study programs at Uppsala University campus Gotland with the toolkit of theater (applied drama) and gaming techniques to enrich sustainability teaching and better navigate through complex interdisciplinary issues.
Information
Program: 4 workshops on games Fall 2023, and 4 workshops on applied drama (theater) techniques in Spring 2024.
Participants: Teachers based at Campus Gotland that have any sustainability related topics in their disciplines.
Format: physical meetings (sometimes hybrid), 3 hours each.
Deliverables: A game library to borrow and use in teaching + an electronic handbook with the game & theater toolkit at the SWEDESD web page.
Funding: Educational development funds (PUMA) 2023
Content
Autumn workshops held in 2023
- Workshop 1: Keep Cool board game on climate change.
- Workshop 2: Fish Banks board game on managing common pool resources.
- Workshop 3: Online sustainability games New Shores and Up to You by Center for System Solutions (Poland).
- Workshop 4: Gamified educational interventions / card games + basic principles of developing your own educational game (with Dept. of Game Design).
Spring workshops running in 2024
- Workshop 1: Introduction to applied drama. Icebreakers. Forum Theater (Per-Ola Nilsson, drama teacher);
- Workshop 2: Climate Conference: from the global level to individual and beyond (Eva Österlind, Professor in Applied Drama, Dpt. of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University);
- Workshop 3: LARP (live-action role-play) in sustainability teaching (Sarah Lynne Bowman, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Game Design);
- Workshop 4: Creative methods for group and individual development in outdoor (nature-based) settings (Oleksandra Khalaim, SWEDESD and Daniel Olsson, communication unit).
Collaborative partners
Institutionen för speldesign vid Uppsala Universitet, Institutionen ämnesdidaktik vid Stockholms universitet, och experter på hållbarhetsspel från Center for Systems Solutions (Polen)