Serious Games

Wilson Center’s and BRAVA Foundation’s Civic Engagement Game for Brazilian Students is Finalist in OECD Competition

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Anna Prusa
Phone: (202) 691-4077
anna.prusa@wilsoncenter.org

 

The initiative, called Cidade em Jogo (Cities in Play), is one of six finalists selected among all submissions to the OECD’s Innovative Open Government Cases initiative

SXSW Edu: (Video)Game Changers for Creative Student Pathways

Below is a list of resources made available for the panel hosted at the 2019 SXSW Edu, "(Video)Game Changers for Creative Student Solutions." The listing of these resources does not embody an endorsement by the Wilson Center.

 

Resources & References

ED Games Expo 2019: Announcing the Learning Game Awards to Showcase the Arts in the Games

Leveling Up Health: Trends in Games for Health from the Games for Change Festival

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease." -- Sir William Osler, co-founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Father of Modern Medicine"

 

Games for Change

Elizabeth Newbury is the Director and Program Associate for the Serious Games Initiative (SGI) for the Wilson Center, leading Wilson's use of games in engaging the public around policy research. As lead of the Serious Games Initiative, she leverages games as a tool for the public communication of science and policy research. Current projects include the Fiscal Ship, a game about the federal budget developed and maintained in collaboration with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy with the Brookings Institution.

Games Round Up: Conservation & Community

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. -- Barry Commoner

Games Round Up: Women of STEM

Screenshot from Portal 2 (c) Valve Corporation

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