...the potential effects before deciding. We hypothesise that serious games can be used to understand regulatory challenges and stress-test solutions at pace. Why serious games? Over the past five years,...
Policymakers using a serious game to support more intentional decision-making In 2022 Policy Lab proposed eleven experimental methods for policy design. One of those methods was ‘serious games’. Over the...
...systems around multiple disadvantage with the Changing Futures Programme. Serious games are one of Policy Lab’s new experimental methods, set out in the launch of our experimental innovation strategy last...
...and serious games can help improve policy outcomes. From next practice towards best practice As part of Policy Lab’s mission to radically improve policy, we have collaborated with teams across...
...process and we expect to discover more new methods. Policy Lab’s experimental methods cards Some of these methods, like serious games, are already gaining ground in a policy context -...
...connect socially, usually within a 3D digital space. Many online video games, such as ‘Fortnite’ or ‘World of Warcraft’, can be classed as part of the metaverse. The popularity and...
...generate lived experience insights through a wide range of methods including film ethnography, co-design, and serious games. Over the past 10 years, we have seen that lived experience can improve...
...RegBox, a toolkit using serious games, which enables policy professionals to convene stakeholders and work together to make decisions affecting regulation. Photograph from our MANIFEST event, where policymakers and other...
...generative AI, from designing serious games, to creating new video work to interactive digital outputs. Responsible use of AI allows us to amplify our existing skill sets and take our...
...stakeholders. The military have long used war-games to help anticipate and simulate non-linear dynamics. Conversely, in the 1960s, design visionary Buckminster Fuller inverted the traditional competition mindset of political gaming,...