These projects look at how we can use gaming to help communities become more prepared and resilient to future uncertainty and impacts of climate change and natural disasters. We are also interested in co-design with communities of sustainable solutions.
Playing with Food: Using Games to Engage with the Complexity of Sustainable Agri-food Systems
23 July 2025
Our project uses playful learning and interactive games to explore the complex challenges facing agri-food systems, encouraging people to think about sustainability, trade-offs, and possible futures.
Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME): a network for future inclusivity, sustainability, and global impact
8 May 2025
FeME is a global interdisciplinary research network led by 15 women academics from the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University.
Building natural barriers for flood protection in Suriname
18 March 2024
This project aims to develop capacity, knowledge and consensus for decision making and action amongst multiple stakeholders for mitigating coastal erosion and flood risk using mangroves in Suriname and Guyana.
Public consultations meet gamification and AI
6 August 2022
The project focused on the design of a gamified approach to citizen engagement in policy making in order to facilitate public consultations with the aim to gather views on and prioritise policies from the citizens. This approach is combined with Natural Language Processing to facilitate analysis of the results.
Role-playing Brazilian Heroes in impoverished communities
28 July 2021
This project focuses on the gamified intervention that aimed at promoting critical thinking and filtering of information in the context of the pandemic and fake news surrounding it in Brazil.