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NUS x NEA Preparing Students for a Sustainable Future Workshop || Games for Change
Our future is increasingly more volatile and unpredictable due to the risks posed by climate change. This has made it more challenging for different stakeholders to make decisions to anticipate or respond to environmental issues. To prepare students for our increasingly unpredictable future, in collaboration with Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (LRFI) and the National Environment Agency (NEA), the Office of Environmental Sustainability co-organised a workshop on the morning of 19 January 2019 at the Singapore Sustainability Academy.
This workshop invited students and youths from various tertiary institutions such as National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Participants played games to experience the complexities of environmental management decisions, and explore the consequences arising from their decisions. The workshop also aimed to equip participants with tools (such as games) that can be used to communicate environmental messages in a more engaging manner. Dr Pablo Suarez, Artist-in-Residence at LRFI, facilitated this workshop.
One of the main games played in the workshop was “Decisions for the Decade”. Participants had to decide, under uncertainty, on long-term investment for development or preparation for extreme weather events.
At the end of the workshop, participants had time to share with each other ideas for potential projects and form partnerships to work on some of the ideas. One example is a group of NUS students planning to design their own role playing game to teach sustainable resource management.