3-Day Design Workshop in Kyoto (2025/10/24-26)
Dates & Times
Workshop
October 24, 10:00-17:00
October 25, 10:00-18:00
October 26, 10:00-18:00
Locations
Workshop Day 1
Kyoto University, Yoshida Izumidono
Workshop Days 2 & 3
Kyoto University, Grad. School of Management
Poster download.
Registration info [closed].
This English-language workshop continues the design and testing of educational role-playing scenarios about climate change and health in a transcultural context. Jointly organized by the Heidelberg University Hospital, Kyoto University, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Osaka, it aims to create a profound awareness of these critical issues through interactive learning methods.
The ECLIPSE team co-developed in its 2024 Kyoto Workshop a short live-action role-play for civic education (also known as a drama game) about understanding climate denial (The Tavern). In 2025, we seek academics, students, and experts from Japan and Germany to expereince this game and co-create variants or new role-play scenarios using design thinking methods. These scenarios simulate realistic challenges in the web of climate change, physical and mental health, and intercultural understanding of these realities to promote strategic thinking and problem-solving.
The three-day workshop is supported by the Japanese-German University alliance HeKKSaGOn.
Participation in the workship itself is free. We will collect a small contribution towards lunch catering.
Workshop Registration
Registration for the workshop closed on October 6, 2025.
If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to us via email (ecplise@cats.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
Program
As of August 2025, subject to change
October 24, Friday
9:30 – 10:00 Registration and welcome coffee
10:00 – 10:30 Get to know each other
10:30 – 12:00 Play and debrief a 30-min drama game on climate change, The Tavern (in groups)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 16:30 Play and debrief a 3-hour edu-larp on climate change (in groups)
16:30 – 17:00 End of the day: Feedback round and preparation for day 2
18:00 Voluntary dinner
October 25, Saturday
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival and overview of the day
10:00 – 11:00 Input: ‘Edu-larp and drama games as method: Design basics’
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 Design Workshop 1: ‘Extending The Tavern or starting from scratch’
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:30 Design Workshop 2: ‘Prototyping the new game(s)’
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Design Workshop 3: ‘Testplaying the new game(s)’
17:30 – 18:00 End of the day: Feedback round and preparation for day 3
18:30 Voluntary dinner
October 26, Sunday
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival and overview of the day
10:00 – 11:00 Design Workshop 4: ‘Tweaking the game(s) based on first feedback’
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 Analysis 1: ‘What works and what does not? Towards an edu-larp design kit’
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 16:30 Design Workshop 5: ‘Re-playing the game(s)’
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 17:45 Analysis 2: ‘Elements of good edu-larp design’
17:45 – 18:00 End of the day: Final feedback
18:30 Voluntary dinner