{"id":24137,"date":"2018-04-28T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/?page_id=24137"},"modified":"2018-04-30T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T10:29:43","slug":"climate-action-narrative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/arcc-bag-of-tricks\/climate-action-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCC climate action narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thanks to SafeWork SA staff, Attorney-General\u2019s Department, Government of South Australia.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Environmental Change and Management MSc students, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, and to Dr Pete Walton for being the Inspector!<\/p>\n
Serious games are increasingly being used by non-governmental organisations such as the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre to convey changing risks. Underpinned by this concept, the ARCC network partnered with Goddard Creative to write and test an innovative communications and engagement tool to improve individuals’ understanding of the current climate change challenges facing the urban environment.<\/p>\n
This communications and engagement project aimed to instruct positive change in the office environment. It was underpinned by excellent ARCC-affiliated research to deliver an improved understanding of current urban issues including:<\/p>\n
From January until April, Tanya Wilkins, ARCC network, and Amy Amani, Goddard Creative, wrote the murder \/ mystery-style, character-driven game that was intended to encourage positive change in the workplace.<\/p>\n
This short pilot project included development of the game, and two trials to test the murder \/ mystery style approach but also to evaluate the game\u2019s ability to empower participants with a deeper understanding of the issues, current research, and what they can individually do. For a successful longer term project, the communication tool will enable participants from the non-academic partner organisations to:<\/p>\n
The novel murder \/ mystery style approach has been developed:<\/p>\n
The game<\/strong><\/p>\n Led by the Inspector, participants become members of the Very Responsible Office Company, including familiar roles such as \u2018The Big Boss\u2019, Chief Operating Officer, accounting, procurement, facilities, IT, communications, reception, and an intern. These characters discover that they have just failed their Happy Climate Building Accreditation, which means instead of the celebratory party they would have received they now have to solve this crime: they must work with and against each other to uncover who did not complete the required accreditation tasks.<\/p>\n The HCBA was loosely based on the International WELL Building Institute\u2019s building accreditation, however, modifications were made to include ARCC-affiliated research promoting climate action and sustainable urban environments.<\/p>\n The tasks included:<\/p>\n There were predominately failed tasks, however it wasn\u2019t all bad news for VROC with some of the tasks completed by members of the team!<\/p>\n In both the Adelaide and Oxford trials, the concept of using a murder \/ mystery-style game for a climate change \u2018who done it?\u2019 was really well received by the participants. As is the case with most new activities, it took a little encouragement to get participants into character, however, with a little prompting they began to uncover the crimes.<\/p>\n This game was delivered to fit an hour timeslot, however, both trials supported a significant increase in this time, as well as a more instructive role for the Inspector to include prompts for the participants. This also includes additional instructions for the participants to highlight that they should be looking at the tasks according the job roles, and identify who would be responsible for costing a green infrastructure initiative \u2013 perhaps start with the accountant given it is partly a financial matter.<\/p>\n The characters were developed to have an influencing factor in the completion of tasks (as is the case when humans are involved!), so participants can really draw from those relationships in deciding who to approach to ask about a task. There is always the opportunity to ask the same direct question of everyone until you get the right answer, such as \u2018were you responsible for the food waste programme?\u2019<\/p>\n In conducting these two trials, there was a lot of specific feedback on improving the game, including:<\/p>\n With the approach confirmed as a success, this game can be further developed to suit a range of other needs, such as bespoke tailoring to a particular organisation or sector, or as a linking tool between different disciplines such as climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n With the ARCC network closing on 30 April 2018, Tanya Wilkins and Amy Amani remain available and keen to pursue opportunities for this murder\/mystery style climate change communication tool.<\/p>\n Friday 20 April, Adelaide Thanks to SafeWork SA staff, Attorney-General\u2019s Department, Government of South Australia. Monday, 24 April, Oxford Thanks to Environmental Change and Management MSc students, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, and to Dr Pete Walton for being the Inspector! What is a climate action narrative? Serious games are increasingly being … Continue reading ARCC climate action narrative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23087,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"arcc-2col-page.php","meta":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24137"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24248,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24137\/revisions\/24248"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arcc-network.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Commitment to the HCBA<\/h3>\n
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Water<\/h3>\n
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Wellbeing & sustainable transport<\/h3>\n
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Reduce & adapt<\/h3>\n
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Biodiversity<\/h3>\n
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Energy reduction policy and cost-savings<\/h3>\n
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The trials<\/h2>\n
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What next?<\/h2>\n
Tanya Wilkins<\/h4>\n
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Amy Amani<\/h4>\n
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