Water Reflections Game
Water Resilience Experiment
Water Reflections is a role-playing strategy game designed by the Commission for policymakers and water-related professionals. It is based on real cases, initiatives, and practices deployed worldwide to tackle water-related challenges. The game has six steps, including individual, collective, competitive, collaborative moments, prioritisation, and investment decisions. The game's outcome is a water resilience strategy based on cases in which the players decided to allocate resources to scale up or down across Europe. The objective is to implement water-resilient actions by the Commission. At the end of the game, the players’ water resilience strategy is analysed through the Systemic Change principles to reveal missing actions for a sustainable transition. The report provides an overview of the objectives, design process, insights, and hypotheses from the observations completed between October 2023 and June 2024. The game aims to support collaboration between policymakers, bring concrete cases into the discussion, codesign a strategy through gamification, and introduce systemic thinking to improve holistic, cross-cutting, and systemic policymaking at the European Commission.
HAMARAT Yaprak;
BORSELLO Alessandro;
MARTENS David;
ARRIGONI Ottla;
DUPOUX Marion;
ARMAS DEL RIO Sara;
2025-03-24
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC140288
OP KJ-01-25-183-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC140288,
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