Comprehensive plans often tackle complex, technical issues like land use, infrastructure, and housing, but at their core, they’re about managing change in communities. So how do we make those conversations engaging, accessible, and inclusive for everyone?
This presentation explores how gamification can transform comprehensive planning into a tool for education, empowerment, and meaningful public input. Learn how game-based strategies can simplify planning concepts, spark dialogue, and build understanding around the trade-offs and decisions that shape how communities grow and evolve.
One presentation highlight is viewing a custom board game developed for the Arlington Comprehensive Plan Update. The game has been used to engage residents in conversations about land use, trade-offs, and neighborhood change — helping them visualize scenarios, express values, and navigate the real-world impacts of change in their community.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how gamification and game-based strategies can make complex planning topics such as land use, infrastructure, and housing, more accessible, engaging, and inclusive for diverse community audiences.
Practice using interactive, game-based tools (including a custom board game) to facilitate public dialogue, thereby helping communities explore trade-offs, express values, and visualize potential effects of planning decisions.
Develop strategies for designing and implementing gamified approaches that empower residents, foster meaningful participation, and improve understanding of how comprehensive planning shapes community growth and change.
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