Mini is beautiful: Playing serious mini-games to facilitate collective learning on complex urban processes

Abstract

Spatial planning projects can be conceived as processes of collective learning. Planners have been looking at games and playful approaches to support these processes. Considering that planning projects are long and complex, we propose to not reason for single, full-fledged and allencompassing games, but instead work with strings of, so-called, serious minigames that each addresses a specific learning goal, guided by a collective learning model. This paper conceptualizes a toolbox to support the development and contextualization of such strings of serious mini-games.