Print Email Facebook Twitter The Princess in the Castle: Challenging Serious Game Play for Integrated Policy Analysis and Planning Title The Princess in the Castle: Challenging Serious Game Play for Integrated Policy Analysis and Planning Author Zhou, Q. Contributor De Bruijn, H. (promotor) Mayer, I.S. (promotor) Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Policy, Organization, Law and Gaming (POLG) Date 2014-09-15 Abstract What are the principles that make societal problems socio-technically complex? And, even more important, how can we support public policymaking in the wake of socio-technical complexity? In The Princess in the Castle, the author investigates if, why and how serious games and game-like simulations (SGs) can support integrated policy making and planning, especially in relation to managing rivers and oceans. She argues that ‘playful methods’ are particularly suited to surround sophisticated analysis with extensive participation. The book contains many examples and illustrations but centres on: the Climate Game, used in a neighbourhood reconstruction project incorporating climate adaptation measures; The Blokkendoos Planning Kit, used in the Netherlands’ planning project Room for the River for integrated flood management; the MSP Challenge, used to further the development of integrated, eco-system based marine spatial planning. The book provides a de- and re-construction of the ‘principles of play’ that underlying integrated policy analysis. The perceived usefulness of game-like tools in the Dutch and Chinese policy contexts is empirically studied. The author concludes that serious games for policy-making and planning are powerful methods with largely untapped potential. Yet, without room to play they can be easily turn into ineffective and expensive toys. Qiqi Zhou is a researcher at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is involved in several research projects with Dutch and Chinese universities. Subject Serious GamingIntegrated Policy AnalysisStakeholder ParticipationMulti Actor System To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:29ae9dce-0320-49d6-b5de-281b7aed1b3f Publisher Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation ISBN 9789079787647 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2014 Zhou, Q. Files PDF ZHOU_PhD_thesis_2014.pdf 17.17 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:29ae9dce-0320-49d6-b5de-281b7aed1b3f/datastream/OBJ/view