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Environmental and Disaster Education through Games

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Wonder why we play games? How games contribute to our society? Get a glimpse of how games design comes with social importance.

About this Event

If you are an educator exploring immersive ways to engage learners,

If you are a game designer,

join the "Environmental and Disaster Education through Games" sharing session to explore the potential of games design for social good. This session is supported by HANDs ! Hope and Dreams Project under Japan Foundation Asia Centre .

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Education, formal and informal, creates awareness, molds mindsets and attitudes. It is indispensable in building communities and societies that is adaptive to environmental changes and resilient to disaster. This is especially crucial in the recent decades, in the face of quick environmental changes. Nevertheless, engaging learners effectively on this aspect remains a challenge to most educators.

This sharing session brings together Ms. Ruttikorn Vuttikorn, HANDs advisor and a renown play activist; Mr. Ralph C. Lumbres, HANDs fellow, artist and educator, and Ms. Ong Ke Shin, HANDs fellow and an environmental educator to share the power of games through case studies from their respective countries and expertise.

This session would be beneficial to educators who envision applying games as tools for environmental and disaster education, individuals inspired to advance in the environmental and disaster education, and game designers who are exploring game design for educational purpose.

Speakers and Topics

Ruttikorn Vuttikorn : Game Design for Society

"Our job is to empower children by providing the right tools called 'quality play'." Ruttikorn says.

Play activist, Ruttikorn Vuttikorn is an industrial design graduate and has been involved with toy design all of her professional life. She strongly believes that every child should have accessibility of quality play.

For that reason, she has never limited herself to only designing toys and games but also to training others to pass on the benefits of quality play. She has worked with different partners, both in Thailand and abroad, passing on her experience and knowledge in order to ensure children have access to safe, educational and fun play.

In 2007, Ruttikorn took on a fresh challenge by collaborating with different organisations designing games that educate children to understand and solve different problems, i.e. environmental, social, and political problems. She believes the future belongs to our children and they have the power to change society for the better.

Ralph C. Lumbres : Communicating Disaster Resilience through Art, Design, & Games

Ralph C. Lumbres is interested in the intersections between art, science, and community development in tackling sustainability and resilience. He is the founder of Prodjx Artist Community, an interdisciplinary artist collective. Together with Prodjx, he started Ligtas PAD in 2017, a community-based 3D hazard mapping project with the indigenous group, Dumagat, in Aurora, Philippines. Since then, he brought this project to more communities in the Philippines and abroad.

Ralph is also a set designer, educator, and a woodworker. He is a fellow of Japan Foundation Asia Center’s HAND’s Project (2016-17), and ColLaboratoire by Cognovo Foundation and the University of Plymouth (2020). Ralph was born in Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao, Philippines. He is now based in Quezon City, Philippines, and Yokohama, Japan.

Ong Ke Shin : "Jom Tapau!" Designing a board game to nurture eco-friendly food takeaway practice.

Ong Ke Shin is a multidisciplinary community-based researcher committed to environmental, social and intangible cultural heritage conservation. Aspired to the pro-environmental behaviour, she enthusiastically partakes in environmental education and conducted research on “No Plastic Bags Policy” while pursuing her master’s degree. She is a fellow of UNEP - EcoPeace Leadership Center and fellow of Japan Foundation Asia Center’s HAND’s Project (2017 -2018), in which she embarks on the exploration of educational board game.

With the support from the Japan Foundation Asia Center, together with Lee Kwai Han from generaSEED and artist Foo Wei Meng, they set out designing “Jom Tapau” (Let’s takeaway food) board game cultivating an eco-friendly takeaway food practice. She is currently a PhD candidate from Universiti Sains Malaysia, focusing on rural tourism development at a popular fishing village in Malaysia.