Speculative Futures Meet-Up #3: Futures Boardgames
24th September 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM BST
Speculative Futures Central Scotland is delighted to invite you to an in-person evening event about Futures Boardgames.
We’ll first hear from Marion Lean, a design researcher who has developed several ‘serious games’ as part of her work for clients like Defra, and the Pensions Regulator. She’ll share stories about creating games with government, and getting policy people to play games.
We’ll then open up Andthen’s collection of Futures Boardgames — we’ve got some quick card based games, some longer form sit-down board games, and we’ve even got our own prototype game you can test. Some of these are pictured, some of these we still need to print out, and some of these we’re still bidding on on eBay 😬!
We’ll all break off into groups, play at least one game, maybe more if there’s time, and then come back together.
We’ll finish the evening with a recap — we can all share what we played, what was involved, and then reflect on the experience.
Speculative Futures Central Scotland is programmed by Andthen and the Data + Design Lab based at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. We are interested in hosting discussions about applied futures — we want to learn about how people are addressing long-term issues in their organisations, from understanding the role of long-term thinking in policy design to understanding the challenges of using futures in large corporates. Speculative Futures Central Scotland is a component chapter of the global Speculative Futures community.
Agenda
18:30 — Join us for a drink and a catch up
19:00 — Intro from Santini and Marion
19:20 — Play boardgames
20:30 — Group feedback and reflection
21:00 — Close
For questions, email ddl.efi@ed.ac.uk or freyja@studioandthen.com
