Seed funding awarded for serious game to engage urban residents in climate action

Lisa Scholten receives Seed funding from the TU Delft Climate Action Programme for the project: ‘Evaluating an educational serious game to engage urban residents in behaviour change for large scale climate action’.

New forms of public engagement and behaviour change are required to adapt urban areas to extreme flooding. The Sudsbury serious game is designed to educate urban residents and landowners about the effects of climate change on pluvial flooding and the potential of sustainable drainage systems for urban climate adaptation. The project aims to systematically evaluate the game's effectiveness in overcoming cognitive-affective barriers to climate change adaptation with a large sample of the population and different target groups.

Other researchers involved in the project are: Rens Kortmann, Maria Freese and Carissa Champlin (IDE Faculty). Other Seed Fund grant winners can be found here.