TY  - GEN
TI  - Unlocking the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance
AU  - Vervoort, Joost
AU  - Mangnus, Astrid
AU  - McGreevy, Steven
AU  - Ota, Kazuhiko
AU  - Thompson, Kyle
AU  - Rupprecht, Christoph
AU  - Tamura, Norie
AU  - Moossdorff, Carien
AU  - Spiegelberg, Max
AU  - Kobayashi, Mai
PY  - 2022
LA  - eng
KW  - Anticipatory governance
KW  - Foresight
KW  - Futures
KW  - Games
KW  - Simulation
KW  - Geography
KW  - Planning and Development
KW  - Management
KW  - Monitoring
KW  - Policy and Law
KW  - Global and Planetary Change
KW  - Political Science and International Relations
KW  - Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
AB  - Games offer unique possibilities for imagining and experimenting with new systems of governance for more sustainable futures – new rules and institutions, new roles, and new dynamic worlds. However, research on sustainability games has mostly investigated games as a type of futures method, largely divorced from its societal contexts. In this paper, we argue that to unlock the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance in the service of a more sustainable future, it is important take a whole-society perspective, and examine the possibilities and challenges offered by contextual factors. Using the Netherlands and Japan as examples, we investigate the following questions: 1) How do governance cultures allow or restrict opportunities for the participatory exploration of futures using games? 2) How does, and can, the game sector in a given context support anticipatory gaming? 3) How do dominant societal relationships with games limit, and offer opportunities for, gaming for anticipatory governance?
UR  - https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/414222
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftunivutrecht:oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874/414222
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -