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Our planet is subject to dramatic climate change that requires all of us to speed up action in order to save it. But we are so slow… The depletion of natural resources is accelerating tremendously. Huge income disparities create enormous social tensions. Moving populations demand for action. Rampant desertification demands forests. Exponential population growth requires more products, more food, more oxygen, more energy, more water, better waste treatment. Can we simulate possible scenarios which can change the planet? How to script those future planet scenarios? What do we need to know to achieve this? Who are our key planet actors? How to test their needs and capacities? How to track the reaction of other actors to a single hypothesis?How to detect the places that need close attention? Can we predict new planet thresholds based on conflict mapping? What kind of gaming system is needed? How do these planets look and why? How this affects the future of our cities?

A collaboration between TU Delft and RMIT Melbourne. Teachers: Winy Maas, Vivian Mitsogianni, Felix Madrazo, Ben Milbourne, Lex te Loo

Students: Alex Hewitson, Anneloes van Slooten, Bowen Chen, Chris Benning, Huudat Nguyen, Iris Tjoa, Jules van Hoof, Kevin van Weerdenburg, Leonardo Traverso, Maaike Mossinkoff, Minnie CHU, Ton van Giessen, Yanjie Liu, Yingda Sui, Ziou Gao