This focus group brought together student teachers, a professor, and a representative from the county library to explore the game in a higher education context. Held at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), the session highlighted the game’s strong potential to foster creativity, empathy, participation, and meaningful discussion, while also creating a safer and more equal space for dialogue between teachers and students. Participants valued the absence of “right answers,” which made it easier to contribute, build ideas together, and reflect on personal attitudes and social issues. At the same time, the session highlighted the importance of a well-prepared game master, clearer boundaries, and stronger safeguarding tools, especially when the game is used in educational settings where vulnerable or controversial topics may emerge. The design was received very positively, with suggestions mainly focused on improving readability and adapting the game to different age groups and levels of maturity.
Next Library Satelite Seoul 2026
22.05.2026
Seoul brought together librarians, creatives, educators, and changemakers from more than 25 countries during Next Library Satellite Seoul 2026, organized by Dokk1 in partnership with the SeeArt Foundation.
As part of the event, the Active Citizenship: Participation Game was presented internationally through the Erasmus+ partnership between BoostYourThinking and Lier Library (Norway). The prototype invited participants to explore societal challenges through fictional personas, participation barriers, and civic engagement tools, using dialogue and reflection as its core methods.
Participants described the experience as relevant, engaging, and thought-provoking. The feedback highlighted the game’s potential to foster meaningful conversations about participation, inclusion, and active citizenship.
Focus Group | University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Norway
27.04.2026
Project Stand | Democracy Conference 2026, Oslo, Norway
24.04.2026
Focus Group | Loures Municipal Library, Portugal
06.12.2025
Focus Group | Spilloteket, Oslo, Norway
02.12.2025
Focus Group | Montemor-o-Novo Municipal Library, Portugal
29.11.2025
Focus Group | Pombal Municipal Library, Portugal
22.11.2025
Focus Group | Horten Library, Norway
19.11.2025
Focus group Terminalen 4, Lier
17.11.2025
This first Norwegian focus group brought together participants from libraries, culture, local government, and civil society to test an early version of the game in a collaborative setting. The session confirmed the project’s relevance and highlighted the value of involving people from the outside, fostering a strong sense of genuine participation in the game’s development. Participants appreciated the quality of the discussions, the group’s active engagement, and the way playfulness helped unlock creativity and fresh ideas. At the same time, they pointed to the need for more humor, clearer role descriptions, a more defined game master function, and stronger storytelling support to make the experience feel less like a workshop and more like a game.
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