The workshop, led by Amber Desprets, will guide educators on the use of the four games. The award winning Future of Elements Awareness Games series comprises four distinct foresight-based games made available, freely, by Amber. These open-ended games prioritise raising global environmental awareness and democratising foresight through interactive gameplay.
Date: Wednesday 13 August 2025
Time: 10.30 to 12.30
Location: Room 4.35, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.
For all TCD staff and educators. Please register here.
Workshop description:
Designed as a Train-the-Trainer workshop, this workshop aims to equip participants with practical skills to lead workshops likely to raise learner' environmental awareness, and to develop competencies related to futures/ anticipatory thinking.
The award winning [see press release at: https://lnkd.in/eARsrmWJ] Future of Elements Awareness Games series comprises four distinct foresight-based games made available, freely, by Amber. These open-ended games prioritise raising global environmental awareness and democratising foresight through interactive gameplay.
Each of the four games uses a different design as follows:
- The Future of Water game employs speculative design to explore emerging water challenges and future artefacts.
- The Future of Earth game uses the Futures Triangle to analyze colonial legacies and ancestral knowledge.
- The Future of Fire game applies speculative fiction as narrative therapy to imagine alternative realities.
- The Future of Air game utilises critical design to provoke reflection on atmospheric issues.
The workshop begins with a short introduction to Future of Elements Awareness Games and opportunity to 'play' the Future of Water game. Facilitated discussion follows, enabling participants to explore how these games might be integrated into their teaching practices to foster future-oriented learning and critical engagement with environmental challenges. Participants will be enabled to trial a second game, of their choice, during the workshop.
For more info on the games, visit: https://futureawarenessgames.wordpress.com/.
Brief Biography: Workshop designer and leader Amber Desprets
Amber Desprets is an expert in futures studies and innovation management. She believes strongly that our work is not just where we earn a living, but also our vision and what we share with the world. This belief fuelled her creation of the Future of Elements Awareness Games. Amber is deeply committed to bringing foresight into everyday conversations for which she is working on building a culture of foresight in Dublin by empowering her students to develop competencies related to futures thinking so that they see themselves as active creators of their communities’ futures.
Brief Biography: Workshop Co-leader Dr Deirdre Crowe
Dr Deirdre Crowe is responsible for International Partnerships and Exchange in the Trinity Business School. She has a background in education and sustainability as well as project management and has taught business and sustainability in society for many years. As a founder of the Water Museum of Ireland project, she has a particular interest in water and our relationship with it. Having attended Amber’s workshops on The Future of Water, and identified it as a potentially valuable tool for educators in Trinity, she has partnered with Amber to make this workshop available in the Trinity Business School.
For further information please email Dr Deirdre Crowe at <crowede@tcd.ie>