Graduate Summer Fellows Participate in Game Session on Decision-Making About Future Risks

Over the course of the past two weeks, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future have had a lunch discussion with Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos, attended a reception with program alumni, and participated in an interactive game session designed to improve decision-making about the future.

The game session was led by Visiting Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez, co-authors of a 2012 Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future Risks. They led a series of activities designed to demonstrate the value of interactive games for contextualizing risk, probability, preparation, and the value of information about the future in decision-making processes. They also discussed the benefits of distilling actual events and situations into game settings, and the ways that participatory games can convey complex ideas in practical ways across academic disciplines. 

The 2012 report was the product of a 12-member Task Force convened by Suarez and Mendler de Suarez. It explores the ways that participatory games can foster dialogue and promote action on real-world decisions faced by a wide variety of stakeholders, with an emphasis on humanitarian and development work. Download the PDF of the report here.

Learn more about this year’s class of Graduate Summer Fellows.