Playing with the Environment: Games about Climate, Infrastructure and Society

What’s on offer?

As part of the 2021 ESRC Festival, we invite you to enjoy this hands-on, interactive gaming session. During the game session, you will have the opportunity to play two brand-new tabletop board games that challenge their players to think about building and developing nation-wide infrastructures and their wide-ranging impacts. The games are an enjoyable way to explore and understand the impact of roads, electricity, water and green initiatives on the climate, economics and society.

Who’s leading the event?

Dr Paul Wake, Department of English

Open to

All welcome

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