Playing the System: Interplay, Power, and Social Change Through Serious Games
Sat, Mar 07
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In this talk, Professor Vikki McCall explores how game-based methods create space for the sociological imagination, enabling participants to step into systems, encounter diverse perspectives, and think beyond themselves as individuals and the constraints of existing policy and practice.
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
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About the event
🧠 Playing the System: Interplay, Power, and Social Change Through Serious Games
📅 Saturday, March 7
🕙 10 AM - 11 AM EST // 16:00 - 17:00 CET
📍 Online (Google Meet) – https://meet.google.com/hxt-kxmg-szx
Serious games are increasingly being used to explore complex social challenges, particularly within housing, health, and social care, fields grappling with ageing populations, climate change, community resilience, and structural inequalities. In this talk, Professor Vikki McCall explores how game-based methods create space for the sociological imagination, enabling participants to step into systems, encounter diverse perspectives, and think beyond themselves as individuals and the constraints of existing policy and practice.
Drawing on Socialudo’s work across the UK, this session demonstrates how serious games bring the future alive in ways that conventional research and engagement methods often struggle to achieve. By combining play, reflection, and interaction, serious games foster empathy, critical thinking, and longer-term, more human forms of…