Upcoming Events
Magic: The Gathering - The Eco-Hack! (Manchester Edition)
The Eco Hack is a 3-hour hands-on workshop where you will design and playtest your own custom cards and decks for Magic: The Gathering. This beta workshop takes place in Manchester, at the Manchester Poetry Library. A second event will take place at the UK Games Expo on May 31, in Birmingham (see listing below).
Magic: The Gathering - The Eco Hack!
Magic: The Gathering – The Eco Hack is a 3-hour hands-on workshop that uses the concept of ‘franchise hacking’ developed by game design researchers Dr Stefan Werning (Utrecht University), Professor Paul Wake and Dr Chloé Germaine (Manchester Metropolitan University). In this session you will join these researchers to design and playtest your own custom cards and decks for Magic: The Gathering, exploring its potential environmental themes and stories. All materials will be provided.
This workshop features in the series of events taking place at the UK Games Expo, the UK’s largest hobby game convention. The convention takes place at the Birmingham NEC Fri 30 May to Sun 1 June, 2025.
STRATEGIES at International Society for Ethnology and Folklore Conference 2025
The 17th international SIEF congress will take place at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, hosted by the Elphinstone Institute for Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology.
STRATEGIES researchers Professor Sonia Fizek and Dr Ruth Dorothea Eggel will be presenting their approach to research on Work Package 2: People and Planet at the conference, in collabartion with game designer, Trevin York.
STRATEGIES at STS Hub 2025
STRATEGIES researchers Professor Sonia Fizek and Dr Ruth Dorothea Eggel will be presenting their research findings at STS Hub 2025, in Berlin. STS Hub is a conference series that brings together German organisations, labs, and research groups that are more or less closely related to Science and Technology Studies.
Policy Innovation (WP4) - Kickoff Workshop
We would like to invite you to participate in a workshop and subsequent survey aimed at policy makers engaged in sustainable transitions in European Game Industries.
The workshop we are planning addresses some of the research already undertaken, defines policy gaps and solutions for enabling climate change action by the games industry, and allows for discussion between the attending stakeholders to share and align perspectives.
When?
Thursday Feb 13, 2025 ⋅ 14:00 – 16:00 (Central European Time - Berlin)
Where?
Online - contact R.Shand@mmu.ac.uk for more info.
Climate Games? Playful Practices to Explore Game Design and Consumption
Professor Paul Wake and Dr Chloe Germaine will be speaking to sustainability researchers and educators at the University of York.
Their paper, which draws on the methodological innovations in participatory research with games, considers how “hacking” and “jamming” are modes of play that support effort to address behavioural and cultural change for climate action.
Sustainability Nexus Conference with Spielfabrique
The conference for the game community of interest in all things sustainable
STRATEGIES will be supporting the second annual Sustainability Nexus Conference on 12th November 2024, co-hosted by Spielfabrique, and their event on sustainable policy in games held at Cologne Game Lab. The Sustainability Nexus Conference is a hybrid event with satellite events all over Europe and online.
We have come to understand that we cannot tackle the range of alarming societal and environmental issues in silos. They are all interconnected. Our annual hybrid conference, based in Cologne and all across Europe, serves as a dynamic meeting point for global industry leaders, policy-makers, and scientists - to connect, learn from one another, and to align existing efforts.
In 2024, the Sustainability Nexus Conference is entering its second edition and hosting the most impactful sustainability stakeholders and innovators in the scene.
The Sustainability Nexus conference is a global event proudly hosted by Stockholm Business Region together with BSG!GO
Green Gaming with STRATEGIES at Katowice European City of Science
Join us for the Green Gaming Seminar Day at the Silesian Museum/Muzeum Slaskie in Katowice, Poland, and find out about the relationship between gaming, climate change, and our cultural heritage. Learn about the game industry’s sustainable transition and how gaming can support climate education.
Green Gaming Seminar will feature game designers, academics, and education professionals in a series of talks, discussions and workshops for university students – lecture, panels and presentation open to all.
STRATEGIES at F|R|O|G, the Vienna Games Conference
STRATEGIES researcher, Ruth Eggel will share her work on video game making processes and practices at FROG - Future and Reality of Gaming, 2024 in Vienna.
STRATEGIES at Essen Spiel 2024
STRATEGIES co-leads Paul Wake and Chloe Germaine will be sharing the results of their project, Games Imagining the Future, at this year’s Essen Spiel, the world’s largest board game fair and trade show. Games Imagining the Future was a pilot for methods used in STRATEGIES Work Packages 5 and 6. In their talk they will also share the STRATEGIES research programme relating to board game development and production.
STRATEGIES at Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society
STRATEGIES WP2 Lead, Sonia Fizek, will deliver a keynote lecture at the BeyondPlay 2024 conference, Bremen, Germany. Sonia's talk is an invitation to rethink video games and gaming within the context of climate crisis and environmental sustainability. It will map out the diverse intersections between the environment and video games: from representations of nature in games to eco-critical design and the materiality of digital technology.