Proposal for Participatory City Planning Boardgame

This is a part of my application to participate in a workshop on open participatory design and digital tools for inclusive & resilient development, to be held at the 2020 Participatory Design conference.

What I want to do in this workshop is to develop some kind of board-game-ish toolkit/probe to quickly simulate or speculate on the deployment of digital technology in various social scenarios. The players are the city council and have to make decisions based on different kinds of prompts. The game will act as a probe, and the knowledge generated through playing it in a participatory way can be valuable to researchers.