Sustainability: A dirty game
Sustainability: A dirty game
Sustainability: A dirty game
January 23, 2023
Summary
The United Nations' sustainable development goals depend heavily on healthy soils, and yet soil quality is fast deteriorating.
Soils may seem dirty, but their unsustainable use is really the dirty matter!
"But our educational game is designed to highlight these often-overlooked links, feedbacks and trade-offs that exist between soil and sustainable development, in a playful and social way", points out Dr. Tanvi Taparia, a soil microbiologist from the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, who worked on the game mechanics and design.
"Sustainable soil management has to be implemented by transdisciplinary collaboration on the global front, and as mirror to the real world, our boardgame forces the players to interact and agree on a joint strategy to preserve socio-economic needs as well as soil health" explains Dr. Michael Loebmann of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, an expert in sustainable soil management and co-creator of the game.
This soil board game helps players to not only understand soil multifunctionality, but also utilize the diverse soil functions to mitigate the associated challenges.
Presenting these relationships between soil functions and sustainable development in a board game scenario enables the easy transfer of rather complex knowledge in a range of situations from workshops to classrooms, playgroups and living rooms.
You can download the soil board game athttps://soilgame.
Reference
University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science. (2023, January 23). Sustainability: A dirty game. EurekAlert! Retrieved February 3, 2023, from https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/977269