Multiplier Event: “Greening Games Education.How to approach environmental issues in video game-related courses?”
On the 19th of October 2023, a dedicated Greening Games multiplier event took place within the framework of the CEEGs 2023: Meaning and Making of Games conference in Leipzig at the Macromedia University. The ME was organized by the following members of the Greening Games team: Sonia Fizek (TH Köln), Laura Frings (TH Köln), Andrea Hubert (Charles University), Lukáš Kolek (Charles University).
The participating speakers at the event:
- Greening Games Team (in alphabetical order): Sonia Fizek (TH Köln, Germany), Laura Frings (TH Köln, Germany), Andrea Hubert (Charles University, Czechia), Lukáš Kolek (Charles University, Czechia)
- Annakaisa Kultima (Aalto University, Finland)
- Conor McKeown (University of Stirling, Scotland)
- Sebastian Möring (Macromedia University, Germany)
- Gerald Farca (Macromedia University, Germany)
- Mikhail Fiadotau (Tallinn University, Estonia)
The take-aways from the event:
- Insights from the “Greening Games Education” report (http://greeningames.eu/greening-games-education-report/)
- Sharing experiences from the classroom (teaching post-mortems and syllabi from Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln and Charles University)
- Impulse talks by workshop participants
- Roundtable discussions on teaching methods, formats, challenges and best practices as well as the implementation of “green games” into existing game-related higher education programs
The leading questions that accompanied the participants:
- What does it mean to teach “green gaming”?
- What should the students know and what should their instructors aim for?
- Should we as academic teachers focus on the capacity of games to inspire, raise awareness and change behaviours or is it more important to teach about ethically responsible sustainable game-making?
The full program may be found on the official conference website under the following link:
https://www.macromedia-fachhochschule.de/de/lp/ceegs-2023-programme/
