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    Gaming The Future(s): Pedagogies For Emergent Futures Tamkang University, Taiwan November 10-11, Tamsui, Taipei

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    A symposium was hosted by Tamkang University, in association with Kyung Hee University and the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, on November 10-11, in Tamsui, Taipei.

    Traditional pedagogical approaches to Futures Studies focused on expert based lecture formats. Scenario planning opened up the process by using groups of experts. In the past few decades, however, the workshop format – futures workshops, knowlabs, immersive futures – all have attempted to include participants in the futures process. They are not mere spectators or receivers of the futures, but active creators – mind, body, and spirit. The futurist becomes thus a content facilitator, helping participants explore alternative futures and create desired futures. It is in this context that gaming the future has become more important. Futures games go further then the cognitive or the emotional, rather, they focus on embodied foresight. Drawing from many approaches – gestalt, play, role-playing, board games – a number of games have become part of futures doxa.

    These include the Polak game, the Sarkar game, the CLA game, the time travel game, strategic gaming systems, foresight card decks, immersive experiences, geo-location gaming, for example. However, this is just the beginning. Games as apps, as virtual reality systems, indeed, the gamification of knowledge, process and action, is likely to grow as digital natives move to global and national decision-making and policy positions of defining how and what we learn.

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    Developments in futures studies

    Along with the dominant gaming stream, the conference also featured presentations on Futures Studies and thinking in general. It was sponsored by Tamkang University, Kyung Hee University, and is part of the Unesco Chair in Futures Studies Asia-Pacific agenda.

    EVENT PHOTOS BY AGENCE FUTURES (BRAM GOOTS)

    EVENT SCHEDULE AND AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCES

    (Below you will find links to the audio files and pdfs of presentations).

    November 10,2016
    Time Event Chair Venue
    09:00-09:30 Registration –  
    09:30-09:35 Opening Remarks Shun-jie Ji, Director of Graduate Institute of Futures Studies (GIFS) Chueh-sheng International Conference Hall (10th Fl.)
    09:35-09:40 Flora Chia-I Chang, President of Tamkang University
    09:40-09:45 Welcome

    Stephen Yong-Seung Park

    Dean, Office of International Affairs, Kyung Hee University

    09:45-09:50 Welcome
    Cindy Frewen, President, Association of Professional Futurists
    09:50-10:20 Why Alternative Futures: why Gaming?
    Jim Dator Emeritus Professor, University of Hawaii
    10:20-10:30 Award Presentation
    From Professor Dator to President Flora Chang
    10:30-10:45 Break
    10:45-12:15 Theory-Linking Gaming and Futures: the Emergent Pedagogies of Tomorrow Kuo-Hua Chen, Associate Professor, GIFS, Tamkang University
    Gaming: The Current State of Play

    Thadani Dimple, Assistant Professor, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

    What Works in Gaming Alternative Futures: insights from Foresight Workshops

    Sohail Inayatullah, Professor, Tamkang University/ UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies

    Future Lab: Social Emergence for Social Innovations

    Jose Ramos, Action Foresight, Australia

    12:15 -13:15 Lunch
    13:15-16:00 WORKSHOPS

    Can Futurists play games?

    Jeanne Hoffman, Assistant Professor, GIFS, Tamkang University
    The Time Machine

    Mei-Mei Song, Assistant Professor, GIFS and Director, Center for Futures Intelligence and Research (C-FAR), Tamkang University

    Games for Policy Makers in the UN and The European Commission
    John Sweeney, Centre for Postnormal Studies, London, UK.
    The Polak Game – Using Gaming in Integral Futures

    Peter Hayward, Professor, Swinburne University, Australia

    The Toynbee Convector Experiment

    Maya van Leemput, Agence Futures, Belgium

    The Sarkar Game

    Sohail Inayatullah, Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan

    Part 1 

    Part 2 

    1600-16:15 Break
        I201
    16:15-17:00 Discussion– Participants: Jim Dator, Cindy Frewen, Thadini Dimple, Stephen Park, Jose Ramos, Maya van Leemput, Peter Hayward, John Sweeney, Mei-Mei Song, and participants. Moderator: Sohail Inayatullah
    16:30-16:45 Concluding Reflection總結回饋與反思 Moderator (主持人): Kuo-Hua Chen 陳國華
    17:00 Close
    November 11,2016
    Time Event Chair Venue
    09:30-10:45
    Gaming the Futures Shun-jie Ji, Associate Professor and Director, GIFS, Tamkang University

    Futures Studies, Experiential Futures and Gaming

    Jake Dunagan, CENTRO, Mexico

     

    City Futures and Gaming

    Cindy Frewen, President, Association of Professional Futurist, USA

    Chueh-sheng International Conference Hall (10th Fl.)
    10:45-11:00 Break
    11:00-1:00
    Futures Studies in the Region Ivana Milojevic, Director, Metafuture. Serbia and Brunei.

    Teaching Futures Studies for Three Decades

    Wilhelm Chen, Associate Professor, GIFS, Tamkang University

    Futures Studies in Taiwan

    Mei-Mei Song, Assistant Professor, GIFS, Tamkang University

    Outside the Comfort Zone: Pedagogical Learnings and Critical Reflections on Futures for Students

    Nur Anisah Abdullah, Assistant Professor, Hamdan Bin Muhamad Smart University, Dubai and John Sweeney, Centre for Postnormal Studies, London, UK

    Teaching the Future and Futuring Teaching in Bangladesh

    Shakil Ahmed, Associate Director, Teach for Bangladesh.

    1:00-2:00 Lunch
    14:00-14:30 A Special Contribution from Kyung Hee University

    Towards Global Eminence: Humanity and Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University

    Jong-Pil Jeong, Kyung Hee University

    Social Fiction in the Next 50 Years

    Byongjin Ann, Professor, Kyung Hee University

      I201
    14:30-15:30 The Politics and Futures of Gaming – Fish Bowl

    Opening Speaker: Ivana Milojevic

    Participants:

    Jang-bang Deng

    Jake Dunagan

    Li-Hui Peng

    Mei-Mei Song

    Shakil Ahmed

    Then round 2 – speakers from day 1

    Moderator, Sohail Inayatullah
    16:30-16:45 Concluding Reflection總結回饋與反思 Moderator (主持人): Kuo-Hua Chen 陳國華
    15:30-15:45 Break
    15:45-16:30 A Game for Future Generations

    Kewulay Kamara, Actor and Director, Badeya, Sierra Leone, A TEDX Speaker

    16:30                            Close

     

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