Connecting heritage, vulnerabilities and capacities through a participatory game

Chmutina, Ksenia; Tandon, Aparna; Kalkhitashvili, Maryam; Tevzadze, Manana; Kobulia, Irakli

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.102005

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“…An overview of serious games for DRR can be found in Solinska-Nowak et al (2018), with some additional games listed in Abad et al (2020). Recently, board games such as the RAMSETE series, inSIGHT and DisCoord, have been designed and used to generate new knowledge about DRR from the gameplay itself (Abad et al, 2020; Chmutina et al, 2021; Delima et al, 2021). The board game is then considered as a framing tool which facilitates the discussions and the co-creation of solutions (Abad et al, 2020; Delima et al, 2021).…”

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Politicizing disaster governance: Can a board game stimulate discussions around disasters as matters of concern?

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Bwambale

Delima

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The disaster risk reduction (DRR) community tends to treat disasters and risks in a managerial and technocratic way, thereby disregarding the highly political nature of DRR. An alternative epistemology of disasters, as “matters of concern”, is proposed and tested. Mobilizing concepts from Chantal Mouffe and Bruno Latour, this paper illustrates how DRR can be transformed into a public issue. It is argued that education and policymaking on DRR would benefit from a recognition of the hybrid nature of disasters. A serious game is used to investigate proposed epistemology. The board game simulates political decision-making on the reduction of risks due to floods and landslides in South-West Uganda. It is hypothesized that the game can generate an ideal speech scenario that fosters discussions among players and possibly even creates a space of political confrontation. Discussions during ten gameplays have been recorded, transcribed and analyzed (1) to understand how the dominant epistemology facilitates an apolitical approach to disasters and (2) to understand the process of politicization and de-politicization brought about when playing the board game in order to derive recommendations for future tools to facilitate a political appreciation of disasters. Our results indicate that participants effectively experience affects, power relations and confrontations during the game, but that a call for consensus and technical solutions is used by the players to close the discussions and move on with concrete solutions. Insights from this paper contribute to understanding why DRR is frequently treated as a technical issue in local and international disaster governance. Epistemology and approaches proposed in this paper are expected to stimulate innovative experiments towards a more political approach to DRR education and policy.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicizing disaster governance: Can a board game stimulate discussions around disasters as matters of concern?

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Bwambale

Delima

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Recent literature on cultural heritage [1] emphasises the necessity to involve local communities in managing, planning, and preserving the local cultural heritage, as only by recognising the cultural heritage values, local communities can express and raise awareness of its meaning and importance to them. Evidently, the feeling of ownership and of proudness that they develop in this way is further reflected in a sense of responsibility for the heritage itself, regardless of its nature as tangible or intangible.…”

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“…When it comes to digital cultural heritage productions, involving such a broader range of stakeholders in their co-creation is paramount if one wants to achieve this same sense of ownership, belonging and responsibility with respect to heritage that the literature on CH speaks about [4]. Such a more inclusive and co-creative approach to digital development will not only create awareness of local heritage services and processes but will also facilitate an innovative culture around such heritage, help support economic growth around it to reduce unemployment and enable the social inclusion of minorities [1,2,5]. Providing the local people a voice through digital mediation, for example by letting their stories related to a specific heritage site be told or by reinterpreting it through the lens of their cultural perspective, help address vulnerabilities that might be rooted in political decisions, social systems, or unequal distribution of power.…”

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A Framework for Stakeholders’ Involvement in Digital Productions for Cultural Heritage Tourism

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Weber-Sabil

Asmar

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This paper proposes a new framework for the production and development of immersive and playful technologies in cultural heritage in which different stakeholders such as users and local communities are involved early on in the product development chain. We believe that an early stage of co-creation in the design process produces a clear understanding of what users struggle with, facilitates the creation of community ownership and helps in better defining the design challenge at hand. We show that adopting such a framework has several direct and indirect benefits, including a deeper sense of site and product ownership as direct benefits to the individual, and the creation and growth of tangential economies to the community.

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Educational Video Games on Climate Resilience of Built Cultural Heritage

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Heritage Education for Climate Action

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Connecting heritage, vulnerabilities and capacities through a participatory game

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Politicizing disaster governance: Can a board game stimulate discussions around disasters as matters of concern?

Politicizing disaster governance: Can a board game stimulate discussions around disasters as matters of concern?

A Framework for Stakeholders’ Involvement in Digital Productions for Cultural Heritage Tourism

Educational Video Games on Climate Resilience of Built Cultural Heritage

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