Hi,
We are exploring building a pervasive game about grassroots urban interventions. Do you want to get involved?

I became interested in a game after the extreme drought in Cape Town,
South Africa, where I'm from, when people were not able to coherently
coordinate grassroots initiatives that still made sense from a large
scale perspective. There was also a rampant spread of misinformation
and conspiracy theories, which baffled me. The drought happened
around 2014 – 2018, which coincided with Trump’s election and hence
there was a lot of writing about why people were behaving this way.

One of the articles that really stuck with me was about curiosity:
“Scientifically literate people, remember, were more likely to be
polarised in their answers to politically charged scientific
questions. But scientifically curious people were not. Curiosity
brought people together in a way that mere facts did not. “ – Tim
Harford, 2017. https://timharford.com/2017/03/the-problem-with-facts/

And so I thought the best way to cultivate curiosity, to gently bring
people back to critical thinking and appropriate action, is a game.

We are exploring funding opportunities and need to build a consortium.
Would you be interested in getting involved?

One such funding call:
https://dutpartnership.eu/funding-opportunities/dut_call_2023/