Share your sustainability challenges with games and gamification students!

Is your organization facing a sustainability-related problem? Do you need to engage people to address it? If so, the use of gamification and games may help. Propose a challenge to the students of the course ‘The Future at Play: Games for Sustainable Development’, who can work on a gamified idea for the problem.

Organizations and communities who
•    want to tackle a sustainability issue that requires an audience’s participation
•    consider that using gamification and games could positively contribute to the envisioned engagement processes
•    want to explore the possibilities of gamification with low risk and cost.

The course runs during January and February brings together master’s students from various disciplines across the university, such as:

• Game Studies
• Human-Technology Interaction
• Education
• Sustainable Digital Lives

The course focuses on the role of games and gamification in connecting people with sustainable development issues and provides students with methods to design games considering problems, audiences, and their contexts.

All you need to do is to:

• Make sure you have a sustainability-related and clearly defined problem/product/service/project to be gamified.
• Appoint a person within your organization to be the main contact point. This person should be familiar with the case, be available for at least one interview with the team, and join the results’ presentations.
• Fill out the case description form.

Please note that these are student projects developed throughout the course. Therefore, participating organizations should expect a gamification strategy that responds to the challenge presented, bearing in mind that follow-up from the involved teams after the course’s end is improbable unless a work contract is formalized.

Daniel Fernández Galeote daniel.fernandezgaleote [at] tuni.fi (daniel[dot]fernandezgaleote[at]tuni[dot]fi)

Case description form

Course page

Gamification Group