{"id":13514,"date":"2012-09-19T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=13514"},"modified":"2013-03-06T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:27:56","slug":"white-house-pardee-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2012\/09\/19\/white-house-pardee-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Research Fellow Conducts Gaming Session at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13517 alignright\" title=\"White House Champions of Change 2012\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse1-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"White House Champions of Change 2012\" height=\"190\" width=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a>Pardee Visiting Research Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/pablo-suarez\/\">Pablo Suarez<\/a> was invited to the White House to lead a participatory gaming session as a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/champions\">Champions of Change<\/a> series on September 14. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano spoke at the event and about 130 attendees participated in the game. The players were asked to stand and take the role of vulnerable community members in the path of a potential hurricane with the choice to evacuate or stay. Players who evacuated chose to sit down. Players who chose to stay risked being hit the hurricane, represented by a Frisbee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13518 alignleft\" title=\"White House Champions of Change 2012\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse-with-Frisbee1-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"White House Champions of Change 2012\" height=\"187\" width=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse-with-Frisbee1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2012\/09\/Pablo-WhiteHouse-with-Frisbee1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pablo Suarez led a gaming session and Task Force, titled &#8220;Games for a New Climate,&#8221; \u00a0at the Pardee Center last March.\u00a0For more information and to watch a related video, visit the Task Meeting and Gaming Session research page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/research\/task-force-meeting-and-gaming-session-games-for-a-new-climate\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez was invited to the White House to lead a participatory gaming session as a part of the Champions of Change series on September 14. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano spoke at the event and about 130 attendees participated in the game. The players were asked to stand and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5355,84,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13514"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14764,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions\/14764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}