Role-playing games as educational tools

The SNF Agora project Edible Research has had another success, packaging two different role-playing games for use as teaching materials on sustainable food systems. One game uses role-play in order for players to better understand stakeholder decisions in the palm oil value chain. The second game has participants build a burger of different foodstuffs to see the relationship between climate change and food consumption.

Anett Hofmann from the WFSC member group of Sustainable Agroecosystems at ETH Zurich delivered the boxed games this week to the Zurich University of Teacher Education (PHZ). Monika Albrecht, head of Sports, Home Economics, and Health at PHZ, will use the game material during an upcoming continuing education workshop with lecturers from several Swiss universities of teacher education. In the fall, she and her colleagues will implement the games in their classes with future teachers, who will, hopefully, further share their experiences in their own classrooms.

The game boxes will stay at PHZ, becoming part of the PHZ library catalog, and teachers will be able to borrow the game materials.

Congrats to the whole Edible Research team, who put a lot of effort into these shared products.