Konstfack Research Seminar: "Seriously Weird: Unlearning through Play in the Public Service"

Konstfack Research Seminar: "Seriously Weird: Unlearning through Play in the Public Service" presented by CAST.

Seriously Weird: Unlearning through Play in the Public Service: The Civil Service College Applied Simulations and Training (CAST) is a small team that uses gameful design to facilitate strategic conversations within the Singapore Public Service. Their work explores how play can create conditions for unlearning: suspending entrenched assumptions, unsettling inherited frames, and making space for other ways of seeing and acting. Central to this is an interest in weirdness — not simply as an aesthetic, but as a method of productive disorientation that can interrupt habitual logics and invite fresh forms of imagination. In this session, the team will share several case studies, facilitate a short interactive activity, and open up a dialogue with participants.

CAST (CSC Applied Simulations and Training) is a laboratory for unlearning. Through the use of gameful methods, we create a brave space for the Public Service to re-examine long standing assumptions and mental models, and to experiment with alternative paradigms to consider potential disruptions and longer-term issues.

Please register for the seminar by emailing mathew.gregory@konstfack.se.

The seminar is organised by Bettina Schwalm and Konstfack’s Design Explorations research platform.