We’re launching our games for research, engagement, and impact service. It’s a result of conversations with academics, hearing that academics want to do fun activities to communicate their research, and making games with academics.
If you follow our work, you’ll know that we’re trying to do monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) work a little differently. We see MEL work as an incredibly important part of the process of delivering public services, but too often it becomes a bureaucratic activity. Something people dread.
Last week, we visited the Manchester Game Centre for their annual conference, Multiplatform. This year’s theme was Rituals of Play, and we were there to present our work on designing and using games as a way of building better futures, and to host a play session of our new
At fractals, we’re passionate about using and making games to help people to understand research findings in an embodied way, and to make different kinds of conversation about complex systems possible.