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July 14, 2025

Playing Perspectives - a game design toolkit

Students collectively design a game on a polarizing topic and are stimulated to explore and gain a deeper understanding of various perspectives and presuppositions (including their own), recognize rhetorical narratives and frames, and devise strategies to overcome these. Students adopt active listening skills when conversing with one another. Playing Perspectives is based on game-based and transformative learning principles. Playing Perspectives consists of three phases. These can be conducted consecutively or separate from one another as stand alone activities, depending on the time available, your learning objectives and the desire to have a playable game as end product. The materials that are developed by students in each of these phases can be uploaded onto Edusources and used by other teachers if they only want to conduct one of the later phases as stand alone activity. Playing Perspectives was developed as part of the Utrecht University Comenius project Fostering an Open Mind and Open Attitude in Higher Education that strives to stimulate perspective taking and dialogue in academic education with creative learning activities. The other learning activities that have been developed as part of the Open Minds project are the Open Mind digital game and The Square (Het Vlak; a creative dialogue methodology). Please note: the photos required for phase 1 can be downloaded from the Teaching & Learning Collection of the UU (see links).

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Robin Bos, Jasper van Vught, Open Minds UU

July 14, 2025

Open Mind game

Open Mind is a digital 20-30 minute game that can be played on any smartphone or tablet. It offers a structured and engaging environment that challenges players’ assumptions and encourages them to reflect on their own experiences, question their assumptions, and explore diverse perspectives in a safe and interactive way. One can choose to have students play the game in class in class mode and include a plenary introduction and a post-play reflection, or one can have students play the game individually at home or at another location. When played on campus, the activity (game, introduction, and reflection) takes approximately 45 minutes in total. It could be used as a first introduction to perspective-taking and uncovering prejudices, priming students to be more open to participate in follow-up activities like perspective-taking exercises and dialogues. Open Mind was developed as part of the Utrecht University Comenius project Fostering an Open Mind and Open Attitude in Higher Education that strives to stimulate perspective-taking and dialogue in academic education with creative learning activities. Other learning activities that have been developed as part of this project are Playing perspectives (a game design toolkit) and The Square (Het Vlak; a creative dialogue methodology).

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Robin Bos, Remco Veltkamp, Open Minds UU

July 14, 2025

Het Vlak - dialoog

Het Vlak is een creatieve, gemodereerde dialoogvorm waarbij in kleine groep (max 15) in een gesprek van 30-45 minuten samen een situatie of onderwerp onderzocht en verbeeld wordt via objecten. Onder begeleiding van een moderator (ver)plaatsen deelnemers objecten, terwijl ze reflecteren op wat ze zien en ervaren. Er wordt niet toegewerkt naar een oplossing, maar naar een gezamenlijke verkenning van de complexiteit van de situatie en verschillende perspectieven hierop. In een nagesprek reflecteren deelnemers op zowel de inhoud als de vorm van het gesprek. Het Vlak is geschikt om complexe of gevoelige onderwerpen bespreekbaar te maken en te oefenen met dialoogvaardigheden, zoals actief luisteren, bewustwording van eigen en andermans perspectief, en omgaan met ongemak. Het Vlak is samen met kunstenaarsplatform Building Conversation ontwikkeld als onderdeel van het Universiteit Utrecht Comenius onderwijsinnovatie project Fostering an Open Mind and Open Attitude in Higher Education dat tot doel heeft om uitwisseling van perspectieven en dialoogvoering in het onderwijs te stimuleren met creatieve werkvormen. Naast Het Vlak zijn als onderdeel van dit project ook de Open Mind game (een digitale game) en Playing Perspectives (een spel ontwerp toolkit) ontwikkeld. Let op: Voor begeleiding van het gesprek wordt sterk aangeraden om met een getrainde moderator te werken. Volg zelf de training of kijk of er een externe ervaren moderator beschikbaar is.

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Sigrid Merx, Robin Bos, Open Minds UU