ROCKET‘s second Outreach event in Visby, Sweden is complete! 👏🤩
We are delighted to report that the second Outreach Conference took place in Visby, Sweden at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design from June 12-13, 2025.
ROCKET co-organized the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education, in collaboration with the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice. The seminar opened with a presentation on the project by ROCKET’s Philipp Freyer and a keynote from David J. Smith on role-playing in humanitarian training simulations. The seminar featured 24 presentations, organized in 6 in-person panels and 2 online panels on topics related to education, conflict, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Members of the consortium facilitated a workshop on conflict styles based on the curriculum in the project. The team also hosted social events for participants June 11-13, as well as internal meetings and a hybrid advisory co-creation event. The ROCKET team also attended the Department of Game Design’s Gotland Game Conference award ceremony in St. Nikolai ruins. For footage of the presentations check out the ROCKET YouTube channel! 🚀
